From alex.tuxx at gmail.com Tue Oct 23 17:00:05 2012 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6125468351133704926==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Alex Leonhardt To: users at ovirt.org Subject: [Users] move ovirt vms from one node to other Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:00:00 +0100 Message-ID: <50870550.6000706@gmail.com> --===============6125468351133704926== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070804070105040809010305 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DISO-8859-1; format=3Dflowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi, i was wondering how it'd be possible to move a existing VM (ovirt kvm = vm) from one Ovirt node to another ?? Is it just a matter of copying the = directory to the other node and restarting ovirt ?? i'd imagine that the = DB would be out of date - is it scanning the ovirt directories for = existing hosts during start and fill in the DB with their details -or- = would I have to create new VMs and copy over the existing disks ?? = better yet, is there a way to backup the ovirt mgmt host configuration = and restore it to a different host? alex --------------070804070105040809010305 Content-Type: text/html; charset=3DISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi,

i was wondering how it'd be possible to move a existing VM (ovirt kvm vm) from one Ovirt node to another ?? Is it just a matter of copying the directory to the other node and restarting ovirt ?? i'd imagine that the DB would be out of date - is it scanning the ovirt directories for existing hosts during start and fill in the DB with their details -or- would I have to create new VMs and copy over the existing disks ?? better yet, is there a way to backup the ovirt mgmt host configuration and restore it to a different host?

alex

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