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RE: [Xen-API] XCP do NOT support migrating HVM?



Thanks for your quick response. 
But people may want to run some OSes which do not have PV driver, is it
possible to remove this limitation or add a switch for this? for example
add "--force" option like vm-shutdown command.

Thanks,
Anthony

 

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 12:48 -0800, Dave Scott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > When I executed "xe vm-migrate", I got following result. Does that mean
> > XCP doesn't support migrating HVM(no PV driver)? I'd like to know the
> > season because I know xend supports migrating HVM.
> 
> Currently xapi insists that you install the Windows PV drivers first-- 
> they're on the 'xs-tools.iso' in the XCP dom0. This may not be strictly 
> necessary for migration to work but all our testing assumes the drivers are 
> loaded.
> 
> Also a tip: use 'xe vm-migrate --live' to make sure you get live migration 
> (minimizing downtime). We probably should make that the default in future.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 


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