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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: Test report: Migration from 4.1 to 4.2 works
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:01:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346418071.27277.207.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5040BC860200007800097D24@nat28.tlf.novell.com>

On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 12:30 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 31.08.12 at 13:04, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> > Migration 4.1 xend -> 4.2 xl
> >   Needs to be done with xl
> >   Stop xend on source, which leaves domain running and manipulable by xl
> >   xl migrate -C /etc/xen/debian.guest.osstest.cfg domain potato-beetle
> >   Works.
> 
> Is that really an acceptable approach? What if you have multiple
> VMs running, and want to migrate just part of them? All the other
> would remain unmanageable at least for the duration of the
> migration(s). (And I also wonder if 4.1's xl is complete/stable
> enough to recommend such an approach as a general mechanism.)

The alternative I suppose would be to:
      * start xend on new host (running 4.2)
      * migrate the domains you want over to the new system
      * stop xend on the new host
      * xl migrate localhost for each domain.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-31 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-31 11:04 Test report: Migration from 4.1 to 4.2 works Ian Jackson
2012-08-31 11:09 ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-31 11:13   ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-31 14:35   ` Ian Jackson
2012-08-31 11:30 ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-31 13:01   ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2012-08-31 13:11     ` Jan Beulich
2012-08-31 13:18       ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-31 14:38     ` Ian Jackson
2012-08-31 14:58       ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-31 14:41   ` Ian Jackson
2012-08-31 11:56 ` Mathias Gaunard
2012-08-31 12:03   ` Ian Campbell
2012-09-10 14:15 ` Ian Jackson
2012-09-10 14:42   ` Ian Jackson
2012-09-10 14:48     ` Ian Campbell
2012-09-10 15:29   ` Ian Jackson

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