KVM failover to another KVM server

[Matt Isaacs]

The XML config files have to be present on both servers.

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Dan Sheffner <thesheff17 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> ok now I have three servers:
>
> 1) storage01
> 2) vmserver05
> 3) vmserver06
>
> storage01 one is sharing out /root/vm/ directory through NFS.
>
> /root/vm from storage01 is mounted at /root/vm on both vmserver05 and 06.
>
> I have created a kvm host on vmserver05 and when I do:
>
>  migrate --live ubuntuTest qemu+ssh://vmserver06/system
> error: operation failed: failed to parse XML
>
> do I need to put the xml file on vmserver06? in the /root/vm directory?
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Matt Isaacs <matthew.isaacs at gmail.com>
> *To:* Mark Foster <mark at foster.cc>
> *Cc:* Dan Sheffner <thesheff17 at yahoo.com>; ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com
> *Sent:* Friday, May 8, 2009 12:07:37 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: KVM failover to another KVM server
>
> DRBD is another nice solution to the shared storage issue.
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Mark Foster <mark at foster.cc> wrote:
>
>> The ability to do migration requires shared storage such as via iSCSI or
>> SAN or perhaps NAS (NFS).
>> The storage needs to be visible on both host nodes on the same path.
>>
>>
>> Dan Sheffner wrote:
>> > I have also tried with the virtual machine manager to migrate from one
>> > server to another.  It seems like it should work but nothing actually
>> > happens.
>> >
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > *From:* Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com>
>> > *To:* Dan Sheffner <thesheff17 at yahoo.com>
>> > *Cc:* ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com
>> > *Sent:* Thursday, May 7, 2009 3:12:16 PM
>> > *Subject:* Re: KVM failover to another KVM server
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Dan Sheffner <thesheff17 at yahoo.com
>> > <mailto:thesheff17 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >     Ok I have gotten close but still having issues.  I have two
>> >     machines running ubuntu 9.04 server AMD and I'm trying to fail
>> >     from one machine to another with:
>> >
>> >     connected to virsh console:
>> >
>> >     migrate ubuntuTest qemu+ssh://vmserver06.ttr/system
>> >     error: operation failed: failed to parse XML
>> >
>> >     any ideas?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     ----- Original Message ----
>> >     From: Dan Sheffner <thesheff17 at yahoo.com
>> >     <mailto:thesheff17 at yahoo.com>>
>> >     To: ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com
>> >     <mailto:ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> >     Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 11:31:34 AM
>> >     Subject: KVM failover to another KVM server
>> >
>> >     I searched hi ahd low but I haven't been able to find how to fail
>> >     a virtual machine from one KVM server to another.  Can someone
>> >     link me to the doc that does this or show me an example.  I would
>> >     hope you are able to do this while the server is running. Thanks
>> >     in advance.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> >
>> > Proxmox is debian based KVM's bare installer and does have that
>> > function(Clustering).
>> >
>> > http://pve.proxmox.com
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