<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Kyle Mestery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mestery@noironetworks.com" target="_blank">mestery@noironetworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Oleg Bondarev <<a href="mailto:obondarev@mirantis.com">obondarev@mirantis.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> While investigating possible options for Nova-network to Neutron migration<br>
> I faced a couple of issues with libvirt.<br>
> One of the key requirements for the migration is that instances should stay<br>
> running and don't need restarting. In order to meet this requirement we need<br>
> to either attach new nic to the instance or update existing one to plug it<br>
> to the Neutron network.<br>
><br>
</div>Thanks for looking into this Oleg! I just wanted to mention that if<br>
we're trying to plug a new NIC into the VM, this will likely require<br>
modifications in the guest. The new NIC will likely have a new PCI ID,<br>
MAC, etc., and thus the guest would have to switch to this. Therefor,<br>
I think it may be better to try and move the existing NIC from a nova<br>
network onto a neutron network.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, I agree that modifying the existing NIC is the preferred way.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class=""><br>
> So what I've discovered is that attaching a new network device is only<br>
> applied<br>
> on the instance after reboot although VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_LIVE flag is passed<br>
> to<br>
> the libvirt call attachDeviceFlags():<br>
> <a href="https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py#L1412" target="_blank">https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py#L1412</a><br>
> Is that expected? Are there any other options to apply new nic without<br>
> reboot?<br>
><br>
> I also tried to update existing nic of an instance by using libvirt<br>
> updateDeviceFlags() call,<br>
> but it fails with the following:<br>
> 'this function is not supported by the connection driver: cannot modify<br>
> network device configuration'<br>
> libvirt API spec (<a href="http://libvirt.org/hvsupport.html" target="_blank">http://libvirt.org/hvsupport.html</a>) shows that 0.8.0 as<br>
> minimal<br>
> qemu version for the virDomainUpdateDeviceFlags call, kvm --version on my<br>
> setup shows<br>
> 'QEMU emulator version 1.0 (qemu-kvm-1.0)'<br>
> Could someone please point what am I missing here?<br>
><br>
</div>What does "libvirtd -V" show for the libvirt version? On my Fedora 20<br>
setup, I see the following:<br>
<br>
[kmestery@fedora-mac neutron]$ libvirtd -V<br>
libvirtd (libvirt) 1.1.3.4<br>
[kmestery@fedora-mac neutron]$<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On my Ubuntu 12.04 it shows:</div><div><div> $ libvirtd --version</div><div> libvirtd (libvirt) 0.9.8</div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Kyle<br>
<div class=""><br>
> Any help on the above is much appreciated!<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Oleg<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>> _______________________________________________<br>
> OpenStack-dev mailing list<br>
> <a href="mailto:OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev</a><br>
><br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
OpenStack-dev mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div>