From: Jiri Denemark Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:09:08 +0000 (+0200) Subject: virsh: Better document --copy-storage migrate options X-Git-Tag: v0.9.7-rc1~248 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2c1a3dd878f915318e8fd7c152d899c525f2f916;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git virsh: Better document --copy-storage migrate options Both --copy-storage-{all,inc} options require disk images to be present on destination host. --- 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.