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...'t actually have a usable qcow2 file. I find lots of discussion online about getting the steps to work, but as yet find nothing about using the resulting file. What am I missing here? libvirt (1.2.2) and qemu (2.2.0) as distributed with Ubuntu Trusty. -- Gary R Hook Senior Kernel Engineer NIMBOXX, Inc

...ic archives will benefit more people, and allow others > to chime in. > > https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/want-help-dont-email-me-directly/ Dang, dang, dang, dang, dang. Yes, of course I did. *sigh*. Will resend to the list. Please ignore. -- Gary R Hook Senior Kernel Engineer NIMBOXX, Inc

...st-pivot) which is using the new disk file, and start it up, without using a block device. This is the part that no one seems to write about, nor do I see that in your example. But thank you very much for your help and your articles; very much appreciated. -- Gary R Hook Senior Kernel Engineer NIMBOXX, Inc

...t;--raw" to the above command. Or, rather, what I really need, which is virsh blockcopy --domain my_domain --raw which I can then control with subsequent commands. I'm kinda surprised no one else has tried to do this and lived to write about it. -- Gary R Hook Senior Kernel Engineer NIMBOXX, Inc

...(the NBD server) is not acting like a disk file. Which, upon reflection, makes perfect sense. OMG it would be nice if qemu-nbd behavior and usage were documented. 8 years and still nothing of substance in the man page. There's a to-do there, I guess. -- Gary R Hook Senior Kernel Engineer NIMBOXX, Inc

Hi all, We are working on nova live-migration using Ceph and trying to work around the problem where vm migration fails if name resolution is not enabled in a cluster. See the link, https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide/App_Migration_Address.html We have managed to work around this by setting

...hoping someone can point out something obvious. There's a recent thread about "Block Replication for Continuous Checkpointing" that is heading towards using NBD. I fail to understand how this is ever going to work, based on my explorations. -- Gary R Hook Senior Kernel Engineer NIMBOXX, Inc

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 03:50:58PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/22/2014 03:27 PM, Gary R Hook wrote: > > I am experimenting with the blockcopy command, and after figuring out > > how to integrate qemu-nbd, nbd-client and > > dumpxml/undefine/blockcopy/define/et. al. I have one remaining question: > > > > What's the point? > > Among other uses, live

On 12/23/2014 05:24 PM, Gary R Hook wrote: > I read that article. > > Now shut down the domain (post-pivot) which is using the new disk file, > and start it up, without using a block device. This is the part that no > one seems to write about, nor do I see that in your example. But thank > you very much for your help and your articles; very much appreciated. What do you mean by

On 01/08/2015 12:44 PM, Gary R Hook wrote: > I've learned how to use the blockcopy command to create a local copy in > a simple disk file: > > virsh dumpxml my_domain > my_domain.xml > virsh undefine my_domain > virsh blockcopy --domain my_domain vda $PWD/dsk.copy.qcow2 --wait > --verbose --finish > virsh define my_domain.xml > > and the resulting copy in

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 01:44:58PM -0600, Gary R Hook wrote: > On 12/24/14 4:42 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:38:57PM -0600, Gary R Hook wrote: > > > >[. . .] > > > >In my case, the block device is a QCOW2 disk image file. If I boot > >without using the disk image file which has the operating system, the > >domain will fail

I have successfully (I believe) built (rebuilt on Ubuntu 14.04), installed, and used libvirt 1.2.2. Behaviorally I can't tell the difference between what I've built and what Ubuntu distributes. Specifically, "virsh capabilities" shows this: <secmodel> <model>apparmor</model> <doi>0</doi> </secmodel>