Live migrating VM's with "serial0: socket"

[nz_monkey]

Hi Guys,


We have a number of virtual appliances that need a serial port to boot, to get around this we have been using "serial0: socket" in the vm_id.conf which works well.


However, when we try to do a migration on one of these VM's we get the error "can't migrate VM which uses local devices" this happens for both online and offline migrations.


This does not seem right, on libvirt it is possible to migrate VM's that use sockets for guest serial.

 

[dietmar]

This does not seem right, on libvirt it is possible to migrate VM's that use sockets for guest serial.

interesting, but our current implementation does not allow that.

 

[lweidig]

Any chance this has been addressed in 4.0? This seems as well like it should be easy to accomplish and we have a couple of KVM machines where it would be helpful.