Re: [libvirt-users] Possible to change 'machine type' attribute while vm is running?

2015-02-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/09/2015 01:24 PM, Andre Goree wrote: > Hello. I'd like to determine if it's possible to change the 'machine > type' attribute while a vm is running. In general, no, because it would be a guest-visible change, and guests don't react well to hardware ABI changing in the middle of a running sy

[libvirt-users] Possible to change 'machine type' attribute while vm is running?

2015-02-09 Thread Andre Goree
Hello. I'd like to determine if it's possible to change the 'machine type' attribute while a vm is running. For example, I have: hvm I'd like to change that to "machine='pc-i440fx-1.7'" due to an error[1] I'm seeing while migrated similar images to another host. The only way

Re: [libvirt-users] HugePages - can't start guest that requires them

2015-02-09 Thread G. Richard Bellamy
First I'll quickly summarize my understanding of how to configure numa... In "//memoryBacking/hugepages/page[@nodeset]" I am telling libvirt to use hugepages for the guest, and to get those hugepages from a particular host NUMA node. In "//numatune/memory[@nodeset]" I am telling libvirt to pin th