[Users] Live migration of Windows guests with VirtIO disk interface

[Joop]

On 25-2-2014 16:00, Jure Kranjc wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this topic is quite old but I got the same problem recently and 
> couldn't find reliable information.. Here is the question:
>
> Is live migration of Windows guests, which use VirtIO disk interface 
> possible in latest stable release (3.3.3) and latest libvirt on EL6?
>
> We are currently using 3.3.1 on EL6 and plan to upgrade to 3.3.3 this 
> week. We can't live migrate Windows guests, which use VirtIO disk 
> interface and scsi driver 0.1.59. Further on, Windows server 2012 
> doesn't update from virtio 0.1-74 iso as the drivers look the same to 
> it. Windows with IDE interface migrate OK but the performance is much 
> worse, so that isn't an option.
> I can later provide log files and package versions, but before I do 
> that, I just want to ask users if I am missing something. Thanks.
>
I'm on 3.3.2-1-el6 with Windows 2012 using virtio and can migrate 
without problems.

Joop