On 10/05/2010 05:18 PM, Mike Hall wrote:
We have the following test environment:
2 x CentOS 5.5 KVM virtual hosts
2 x CentOS 5.5 network storage boxes with NFS shares on LVs on DRBD
(primary/secondary, no HA, just replication).
We have installed a Win7 guest which can be live migrated almost instantly between hosts
using Virt Manager (or virsh). The problem is that the guest does not retain its running
state after migration, but instead arrives on the new host in "reboot after unclean
shutdown" mode (Windows Error Recovery page on screen), asking how we would like to
reboot the guest (Safe Mode, normal, etc).
The migrated machine also loses IP connectivity (static IP) upon migration to
new host, but regains it on migration back to original host.
So, live migration in this case isn't producing the expected results (a
running, usable guest).
Same results using "migrate offline" and pausing the machine before migration.
What could we be doing wrong?
Michael Hall
IT Communications Officer
Alice Springs Town Council
[email protected]
(08) 8950 0561
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We use the same basic software here. The only difference being that we
use iscsi targets for each VM, instead of one big iscsi pool, or NFS.
Our live migrates of all types of Linux hosts seem to work well.
One issue with Windows is that APIC events are not handled at all unless
a user is logged in.
For instance, Win2k8 based VMSs do not respond to 'virsh shutdown'
unless someone is logged in. If it receives a second shutdown (power
off) event within a minimum time frame, it will process it.
There is no way that the KVM host can tell if a client has processed an
event. It can only assume it did.
So for windows, test your live migrate with a user logged in, and see if
it processes the pause event properly.
Although I have personally tested live migrates hundreds of times on
RHEL5.5 and Centos5.5 servers with Fedora, Centos, and Ubuntu VMs, I did
not test windows just because I didn't want to. Maybe I should. :)
We did test our automated Win2k8 installer hundreds of times, but I was
the only one who tested our migrate scripts.
I would rather just tell our customers, "Oh well. I recommend you use
Linux instead." But I suppose management may not go for that. :)
I will run some Win2k8 (that is all we are offering customers for
Windows) tests and respond here.
Good Luck!
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