Hi, Xapi currently insists that VMs have PV drivers installed before allowing migration. The rationale for this is: (i) you get the best performance with drivers installed, so you should always install them; and (ii) we focus our testing on this case :-)
However, sometimes it is convenient to bypass this particular check and just do it anyway. I've written a wiki page containing a simple bash script which writes keys to xenstore, fooling xapi into believing that PV tools are functioning. Let me know if you find it useful! http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XAPI_fake_presence_of_pv_drivers In the future we probably should add some better mechanism to xapi to selectively bypass this check; either something global ("enable experimental feature:x") or something per-VM (e.g. an "other-config" key). Any thoughts? My own thinking was that if migrate should always work (if a little slowly) then a global option is better; but if it's guest dependent (i.e. crashes guest type X, works ok on Y) then a per-VM flag is better. Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ xen-api mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
