[libvirt] [PATCH v2] Add documentation about migration.

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Fri Oct 28 03:47:34 UTC 2011


On 10/27/2011 03:55 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange"<berrange at redhat.com>
>
> This adds a page documenting many aspects of migration:
>
>   - The types of migration (managed direct, p2p, unmanaged direct)
>   - Data transports (native, tunnelled)
>   - Migration URIs
>   - Config file handling
>   - Example scenarios
>
> In v2:
>
>   - All Eric's fixes
>   - Squash in the preceeding patch which was mistakenly
>     left out before

Thanks for the cleanup.

ACK with nits:

> +<h3><a id="scenarionativepeer2peer">Native migration, client to and peer2peer between, two libvirtd servers</a></h3>
> +
> +<p>
> +      virDomainMigrate, with the VIR_MIGRATE_PEER2PEER flag set,
> +      using the libvirt URI format for the 'uri' parameter. The
> +      destination libvirtd server will automatically determine
> +      the native hypervisor URI for migration, based off the
> +      primary hostname. The optional uri parameter controls how
> +      the source libvirtd connects to the destination libvirtd,
> +      in case it is not accessible using the same address that
> +      the client uses to connect to the destiation, or a different

s/destiation/destination/

> +<h3><a id="scenariotunnelpeer2peer1">Tunnelled migration, client and peer2peer between two libvirtd servers</a></h3>
> +
> +<p>
> +      virDomainMigrate, with the VIR_MIGRATE_PEER2PEER& VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELLED
> +      flags set, using the libvirt URI format for the 'uri' parameter. The
> +      destination libvirtd server will automatically determine
> +      the native hypervisor URI for migration, based off the
> +      primary hostname. The optional uri parameter controls how
> +      the source libvirtd connects to the destination libvirtd,
> +      in case it is not accessible using the same address that
> +      the client uses to connect to the destiation, or a different

s/destiation/destination/

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