rhtyd closed pull request #10: Snapshots, not live migrations ? URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/10
This is a PR merged from a forked repository. As GitHub hides the original diff on merge, it is displayed below for the sake of provenance: As this is a foreign pull request (from a fork), the diff is supplied below (as it won't show otherwise due to GitHub magic): diff --git a/source/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.rst b/source/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.rst index 1ea8eec..c5cc5ff 100644 --- a/source/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.rst +++ b/source/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.rst @@ -1091,13 +1091,13 @@ installed on all of your KVM hosts. As this package often is not available in standard distribution repos, you will need to install the package from your preferred source. -Live Migration +Volume snapshots ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -CloudStack uses the qemu-img to perform live migrations. In CentOS > 6.3, the qemu-img +CloudStack uses the qemu-img to perform snapshots. In CentOS >= 6.5, the qemu-img supplied by RedHat/CentOS ceased to include a '-s' switch which performs snapshots. The '-s' switch has been restored in latest CentOS/RHEL 7.x versions. -In order to be able to perform live migrations on CentOS 6.x (greater than 6.3) you must +In order to be able to perform volume snapshots on CentOS 6.x (greater than 6.4) you must replace your version of qemu-img with one which has been patched to include the '-s' switch. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services
