[openstack-dev] [nova] live migration in Mitaka

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Oct 6 14:11:10 UTC 2015


On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:54:21PM +0100, Paul Carlton wrote:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/85048/ was raised to address the
> migration of instances that are not running but people did not warm to
> the idea of bringing a stopped/suspended instance to a paused state to
> migrate it.  Is there any work in progress to get libvirt enhanced to
> perform the migration of non active virtual machines?

Libvirt can "migrate" the configuration of an inactive VM, but does
not plan todo anything related to storage migration. OpenStack could
already solve this itself by using libvirt storage pool APIs to
copy storage volumes across, but the storage pool worked in Nova
is stalled

https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:abandoned+project:openstack/nova+branch:master+topic:bp/use-libvirt-storage-pools,n,z
> 

Regards,
Daniel
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