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Re: [Xen-users] Xen Image File vs LVM



On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Michael March <mmarch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> 3.        If I have a xen guest os in a LV how would I migrate the guest os
>>> from one machine to the other?  Create identical LV on new machine?
>>
>> to migrate VMs, the storage has to be accessible from both machines
>> with the same reference.  when using image files, that means a shared
>> filesystem (NFS, GFS, OCFS, etc.), when using LVs, that means the VG
>> must be accessible from both hosts, usually with a SAN or SAN-like
>> setup (FC, iSCSI, drbd, AoE, (g)nbd, etc)
>
> Is this for 'live' migrations or any migration of a VM?

sorry, didn't read the whole question.

this is for live migrations.  for 'manual' migrations, you can get by
copying the data (and i guess you could also migrate between image
files and LVs, but i haven't tried that (yet))


-- 
Javier

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