Re: [Xen-users] Live migration not permanent?

["Jeff Lane" <sundowner225@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:38 PM, [STD]Ein <ein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It is the expected behaviour.  It's your responsibility to ensure that the
> domain isn't started on more than one host at a time (this may be enforced
> by your shared storage solution).

Yep.  The only thing live migration does is move the running domU from
its current memory location on Host A, to a new memory location in
Host B.  It does not move any config files, and you MUST use shared
storage to have a working domU on Host B after migration.  You CAN
migrate a domain that has storage local to Host A but not Host B,
however, what happens is that on Host B, you get a running guest that
can not access its filesystem, and much hilarity ensues when you try
to do anything that involves accessing the filesystem.

So, the requirements are:

Host A --|
              ----- Shared Storage (I use Fiberchannel storage for this)
Host B --|

And, if you want to permenantly move the domU from host A to host B,
you need to move the domU config file from hostA to hostB as well.

Also, you could have Host A be a mirror of Host B (failover scenario)
so if Host A bites the dust, you can run the domU to your heart's
content on Host B, since B has the config file too...

YMMV, of course...

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