On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:05:11PM -0700, Scott Baker wrote: > On 07/08/2009 02:02 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:21:53PM -0700, Scott Baker wrote: >>> I have two host machines on the same subnet, and I have >>> /var/lib/libvirt/images shared between the two via NFS. I'm trying to do >>> a "migration" from one host to another and I'm getting an error. >>> >>> virsh # migrate --live Narwhal qemu+ssh://10.1.1.1/system >>> error: operation failed: failed to start listening VM >>> >>> That's from the host running the VM to the new host. I'm assuming you >>> have to do a "push" migrate, not a "pull"? Where can I look next to >>> figure out why it didn't work? >> >> Hum that sounds familiar, what versions of libvirt are you running on >> both nodes, look at /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Narwhal.log on the target for >> informations. I suggest to make sure that you get up2date and similar >> versions on both sides to avoid extra troubles. > > Host 1: libvirt-0.6.2-12.fc11.x86_64 > Host 2: libvirt-0.6.2-12.fc11.i586 > > Both machine are 64 bit, Host 2 is just running i386 code. Will that be a > problem? yes that can be a problem ! > If I check Narwhal.log there is nothing in there at the time of the > migration error. Nothing in messages either. As far as I can tell it just > fails silently. Maybe we need to resurrect the idea of the pre-migration check Also is Narwhal still running on Host 1 after the operation failed, based on the error message I assume the error shows up after a fair amount of time spent sending the domain state between both nodes, right ? Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list