So we have to use the block-migrate flag in the live-migrate command set. Also which is the minimum libvirt version that support this. We use lbvirt-0.10.2-29 Thanks for the pointer to the patch. I will check that out. Sangeeta On 2/21/14, 9:38 AM, "Joe Gordon" <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Sangeeta Singh <singhs at yahoo-inc.com> >wrote: >> Hi, >> >> At my organization we do not use a shared storage for VM disks but >>need to >> evacuate VMs from a HV that is down or having problems to another HV. >>The >> evacuate command only allows the evacuated VM to have the base image. >>What I >> am interested in is to create a snapshot of the VM on the down HV and >>then >> be able to use the evacuate command by specifying the snapshot for the >> image. > >libvirt supports live migration without any shared storage. TripleO >has been testing it out using this patch >https://review.openstack.org/#/c/74600/ > >> >> Has anyone had such a use case? Is there a command that uses snapshots >>in >> this way to recreate VM on a new HV. >> >> Thanks for the pointers. >> >> Sangeeta >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> > >_______________________________________________ >OpenStack-dev mailing list >OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev