Live Migration

[Onyx]

Hi,

First: Great to hear 1.0 is out, thanks for the great work!!

I have a question about live migration:
How does that work if there is only local storage? Can it be done via the gui or is it done via the console.

Some other questions:
- Can PVE be installed on a running Debian system when adding your repository to /etc/apt/sources.list?

- Does PVE support failover? (virtual machine starts on an other physical node when a node fails)

 

[tom]

Hi,

First: Great to hear 1.0 is out, thanks for the great work!!

I have a question about live migration:
How does that work if there is only local storage? Can it be done via the gui or is it done via the console.

on the gui. to describe the live migration in simple words, we just copy the data, then freeze the VM, copy the memory, unfreeze on the target node. e.g. a WinXP with 512 Ram can be live migrated with about 15 seconds freeze time.

Some other questions:
- Can PVE be installed on a running Debian system when adding your repository to /etc/apt/sources.list?

No. the Proxmox VE is a bare-metal system.

- Does PVE support failover? (virtual machine starts on an other physical node when a node fails)

not yet. this can only works if you have central storage. but see our Roadmap.

 

[Onyx]

ok, thanks!
You even work on holidays!