[Xen-users] Re: Error: Migration not permitted with assigned PCI device

[Federico Fanton <fake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Couchman wrote:
> How do you expect to do live migration of a machine that has a PCI
> device assigned?  What if you migrate to another server that does not
> have that PCI device, or has it, but at a different bus location?  This
> could cause major problems in the machine after migration.  Xen doesn't
> know (and doesn't care) what type of PCI device you're passing through,
> so what if it's a storage controller?  If you're allowed to migrate a
> machine with PCI devices assigned, and you migrate one that has a
> storage controller assigned, the machine is going to crash.
Well, I understand that it is a complex task, but maybe there could be a 
list of "migrable PCI devices" that wouldn't give problems to Xen.. And 
of course it would work only with ad-hoc configured machines.. I wasn't 
getting into the details, I was just asking :)
> Sorry, I missed the beginning of this thread, but what type of device
> are you passing through?
A serial port.

Bye!


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