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----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com> > To: "Andrew Martin" <amartin@xes-inc.com> > Cc: "Gergely Horváth" <gergely.horvath@inepex.com>, libvirt-users@redhat.com > Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2014 9:31:29 AM > Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Can I move the disk image of the guest while it is running? >

Hi Eric, Thanks for the info. I see the value in this, but it isn't quite what I was looking for. Basically what I want to do is to switch between snapshots quickly. For instance, I am currently working on designing a HA SQL implementation with failover. So right now I have 5 VM's running postgresql as a replication group. I am trying a lot of different things and often have to take a

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com> > To: "Gergely Horváth" <gergely.horvath@inepex.com>, libvirt-users@redhat.com > Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:47:47 PM > Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Can I move the disk image of the guest while it is running? > > On 02/05/2014 02:54 PM, Gergely Horváth wrote: > >

Hello, I recently compiled libvirt 1.0.1 and qemu 1.3.0 on Ubuntu 12.04. I have performed live snapshots on VMs using "virsh snapshot-create-as" and then later re-merge the images together using "virsh blockpull". I am wondering how I can do a couple of other operations on the images while the VM is running. For example, VM1 is running from the snap3 image, with the following

Thank you Eric, On 2014-02-05 17:23, Eric Blake wrote: > Yes, live storage migration is possible; although at the moment, qemu is > lacking a way to restart the operation if it fails midstream, so libvirt > only allows the operation if you are willing to temporarily make your > guest transient. What does this mean? Will I loose anything if - for example - there is not enough space on

Hey at all, my Name is Jens-Uwe Sperling. Iám a young student in computer science. I want install a VM for testing at home. i had install a VM with virt-install and the default parameters. (Number cpu, mem etc.) After that i install my OS and configure it. Now i want work on this image in a transient way. So i can use the OS with the given config but every change i do from now should not

I want to use transient disks with libvirt. According to [1], the transient disk feature has been supported since 0.9.5. Hence, I have installed libvirt 0.9.6 for Ubuntu Lucid from [2] and used the following disk configuration: <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source

Hello guys! We want to move some guests' disk images to different locations (within the same machine, locally), but we do not want to turn off the guests. Can we do that while the guest is running, like live migration? I did not find any related documentation or posts about it. Let's say the guest has a disk at /ssd/image.raw We want to move that to /hdd/image.raw Is there any way to

Hi, Is it possible to "pivot" to a new image without doing blockcopy or blockpull? I know how to use snapshots and blockpull to create a new image and pivot to using it live, but what I would like to do is to have a VM switch from using imageA.qcow2 to image2.qcow2 while running. I don't see why this wouldn't be possible since some of the existing libvirt tools can do this when

Hello list! I'm currently digging into libvirt-based virtualisation infrastructure (KVM/Qemu Hypervisors so far). I have a little concern here: Let's say we have two hypervisors (I and II), running 3 VMs each - I runs a,b,c and II runs d,e,f. Virtual disks are stored on a centralized storage solution, let's say a good old cluster of NFS filers. Network configuration is homogenous on

All, I have a service that takes new live KVM snapshots Si regularly, keeps a fixed number N (Si ,..,Si-N+1), and therefore needs to delete Si-N in this cycle. Until libvirt includes support for this capability that is said to be available in qemu, what is a safe workflow to delete old live KVM snapshots w/o losing data. Do I need to pause/shut down the VM? The development environment is

I notice that the qemu driver doesn't support snapshot drives (-drive file=foo,snapshot=on). This is important for libguestfs. Currently libguestfs hacks this using <qemu:arg>. That works fine for static disks in the libvirt XML, but lack of direct support in libvirt is a blocker for adding hotplugging to libguestfs. In qemu, the snapshot=on feature does several things: (a) It

Hi, I'm just wondering is there any way for me to trigger KVM's -snapshot parameter from libvirt. I don't want to clone a disk etc. I just need a way so that KVM is spawned with a '-snapshot' parameter. Anyone got any ideas? Cheers Chris

My question is this: If you have an ongoing blockcopy (drive-mirror) of a running transient VM, and the VM kernel panics, can you restart the VM without interrupting the ongoing blockcopy? A virsh reboot won't work since if the VM is kernel panicked, its not going to respond to ACPI requests.

Hello, Is there any way to query libvirt, ideally through virsh CLI utility or similar, to get a timestamp of when a VM was created. Or to put it another way, a timestamp of when a domain's UUID was allocated. Many thanks, -- Tony Atkinson

Hello, what happens when an instance writes data with 0% available physical disk space, on QCOW2 images for instance, apart from destruction and unpredictability? I'm aware that monitoring is mandatory in production environments, but are there other known industry tricks to deal with this? Soft/hard limit settings, autopause/stop, or does KVM react in doing force shut down the VM in

Hi, Virsh destroy is always failing with below error. [host:~]$ virsh destroy XYZ--2 error: Failed to destroy domain XYZ--2 error: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running [host:~]$ virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - XYZ--2 shut off [host:~]$ host:~]$ libvirtd --version

> Your quoting is horrible. You used the same prefix for your original > content as for my reply (">> >" in both cases). I'm not sure what > mailer you are using, but it is making conversation difficult. OK, let's see if this is better. Turned out my email app wasn't doing text wrap and quoting prefix default was bizarre....my apologies. > > >

# virsh snapshot-create-as small snap1 --disk-only --atomic error: Operation not supported: live disk snapshot not supported with this QEMU binary OS used: CentOS 7 #virsh version Compiled against library: libvirt 1.1.1 Using library: libvirt 1.1.1 Using API: QEMU 1.1.1 Running hypervisor: QEMU 1.5.3 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Payes

Hello, I have a running transient domain with a storage volume that utilizes a backing file (both QCOW2 format). I'd like to capture the disk and memory state of the domain preferably to external file(s) (which I understand is an 'external checkpoint'), so that other independent domains can be instantiated and effectively "resumed" from this point-in-time profile. My