Absolutely should be mentioned in the docs - thanks for uncovering! Anne Gentle Content Stacker [email protected]
On Jun 9, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Florian Haas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/07/12 14:21, Florian Haas wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Thierry Carrez <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Florian Haas wrote: >>>> a few people have reported issues with live migration lately, and >>>> I've been digging into them to narrow them down. >>>> >>>> The symptom is relatively easy to describe: you run "nova live-migration >>>> <guest> <host>", and nothing happens. >>>> [...] >>>> I'd be thankful for any clues as to where to dig further. >>> >>> You should submit a bug on the bugtracker about that, and continue the >>> discussion there (pointing to the bug number from here)... I'd hate to >>> see this one fall under the radar because it's not properly tracked. >> >> Done: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1009974 > > Apologies for the noise. I had mistakenly believed that since the list > of --live_migration_flags contained spaces, it was OK to quote the > --live_migration_* options. Evidently it's not, as removing the double > quotes made the problem go away. My guests now do migrate. > > Anne/Thierry: I've thus far been unable to find any documentation that > says "don't use double quotes in nova.conf". In fact, > http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/compute-options-reference.html > uses them in several places, including the --live_migration* flags. That > quotes can break things appears to be a known issue as per > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/987473. Is this something that we > should mention in the documentation, or is this unexpected parser > behavior that needs to get fixed? > > Cheers, > Florian > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

