Re: [Xen-devel] migrate vps from xm to xl toolstack

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 12:37 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         Hello, xen  team.
>         As i understand migrate from xm to xl is not possible.
>         But is that possible to migrate vps by hands? For example on
>         xm node i
>         do xm save and on xl node doins xl restore... ?
> 
> I take it you're looking to do a "rolling upgrade" of a set of
> servers?  I don't think I had thought of that before. :-)
> 
> A couple of points though:
> * The save file is actually not made by xm or xl, but by the
> lower-level xc libraries which are shared by both.  So although I
> don't think we've tested saving with xm and restoring with xl, I have
> every reason to think it will work just fine.

Ian J tested this as part of the 4.2.0 release, it could be made to work
with a couple of simple tricks. Details ought to be in the list
archives.

Ian.



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