Il 05/03/2014 02:00, Huangpeng (Peter) ha scritto:
One question:
Can post-copy fallback if exceptions happen during post-copy?
What do you mean by 'exceptions' here? Generally postcopy can't fall back to
precopy because once you're in postcopy mode the state is split between the
two machines.
Like destination VM interrupted due to memory-copy error or other exceptions,
with pre-copy scheme, we can fall-back to the source-vm.
No, postcopy cannot do that.
However, this is a limitation of postcopy, not of the kernel interfaces
that Andrea is adding. If you use those interfaces to implement live VM
point-in-time snapshots, you can drop the snapshotting operation safely
and keep the VM running.
One simple question(may be discussed before), what kind of scenario does post-copy
aim for?
Mostly cases where pre-copy migration doesn't converge because the guest
is too big, or when you require a really, really small downtime.
It can be useful when you have to evacuate a host as fast as possible
(due to detecting an intrusion or impending hardware failure), because
the alternative is to shutdown the VM immediately. It can also be used
for upgrading QEMU on the host where the VM is running; in this case you
can use a Unix socket for transport, and eliminate the chance of
migration failing due to a network problem.
Paolo
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