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

[Anthony Xu <anthony@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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