[libvirt-users] sanlockd, virtlock and GFS2

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:39:33AM +0200, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> Virtlockd
> =========
> Since sanlock was not working as expected, I tried virtlockd. This
> seems to be working well, but: live migration fails because the file
> on the shared disk (used for locking) is being locked by the
> original server running the VM. So when trying to do live migration,
> this fails and leaves the VM paused on the original server. Trying
> to migrate a paused server then works ok, but that's of course not
> live migration.

That would be a bug - the lock is suposed to be released on the
source & re-acquired on the dest at the switch-over point.

Daniel
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