Re: [Xen-devel] Is data transfer encrypted in live migration?

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 14:00 +0430, Alireza Vaezi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> does xen establish a secure (encrypted) channel via ssh to transfer
> data in live migration?

This is a function of the toolstack in use. For the xl toolstack the
answer is yes, everything (including the guest memory contents) is
transmitted over the encrypted ssh tunnel.

I don't know what libvirt does (might be optional depending on the URL
used?).

Ian.

> 
> 
> I'm using xen 4.4 hypervisor and when trying to live migrate a domU
> guest to another physical machine, it establishes ssh connection to
> the destination. does it mean that the memory content of the VM
> transfered to the destination in live migration is encrypted?
> 
> 
> 
> S.Alireza.V
> 
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