Re: Getting Memory Dump of a running VM on CloudStack

2015-02-05 Thread Marcus
It's not taken as a dump file. It uses the standard libvirt migration where it connects to the libvirt daemon on the destination and streams the state. You should be able to take state snapshots of the vm manually like you'd normally do with libvirt on the hypervisor (I'm sure there's a virsh comm

Getting Memory Dump of a running VM on CloudStack

2015-02-05 Thread Deepal Jayasekara
Can anyone explain or point me to some resources on how CloudStack performs live migration of VMs with KVM? I need to know how the memory is taken as a dump file and restored on another machine during migration. Can we intercept and take the memory dump to store wherever we want? So that we can res