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Re: [Xen-users] Swap space for DomU

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Swap space for DomU
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:30:03 +0000
Cc: Matthew Crocker <mcrocker@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Albrecht <jan.albrecht@xxxxxxxxx>, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Friday 28 December 2007, Jan Albrecht wrote:
> > What happens with swap space during a live move if I use a file per
> > DomU.  Does the move script copy the swap file over as well?
>
> Live move should copy all data disks, which inculdes swap.
>

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> Wrote:
> If you do a live migration, it does indeed move the state. I like to use 
> a separate swap partition oon DomU to ease bare metal restorations and 
> off-line operations on DomU's files. 

The xm migrate command on its own doesn't copy virtual disks, so neither swap 
nor data will automatically get migrated with the machine.  I think it's 
possible to configure disk migration using the external device migration 
scripts, but AFAIK it's not enabled by default - am I wrong here?

However, the domain's configuration data is sent along with its memory state 
when the migration occurs, so if you configure appropriate network-accessible 
storage for swap and data VBDs then they can be transparently available at 
the destination machine without the guest knowing what's just happened to it.

Cheers,
Mark

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