From 2c1a3dd878f915318e8fd7c152d899c525f2f916 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Denemark Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:09:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] virsh: Better document --copy-storage migrate options Both --copy-storage-{all,inc} options require disk images to be present on destination host. --- tools/virsh.pod | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod index fbde57f530..0e7acfaba9 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.pod +++ b/tools/virsh.pod @@ -727,9 +727,12 @@ and I<--suspend> leaves the domain paused on the destination host. I<--copy-storage-all> indicates migration with non-shared storage with full disk copy, I<--copy-storage-inc> indicates migration with non-shared storage with incremental copy (same base image shared between source and destination). -I<--change-protection> enforces that no incompatible configuration changes -will be made to the domain while the migration is underway; this flag is -implicitly enabled when supported by the hypervisor, but can be explicitly +In both cases the disk images have to exist on destination host, the +I<--copy-storage-...> options only tell libvirt to transfer data from the +images on source host to the images found at the same place on the destination +host. I<--change-protection> enforces that no incompatible configuration +changes will be made to the domain while the migration is underway; this flag +is implicitly enabled when supported by the hypervisor, but can be explicitly used to reject the migration if the hypervisor lacks change protection support. I<--verbose> displays the progress of migration.