[fedora-virt] Suspending VMs on host shutdown

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Mon Aug 15 13:45:50 UTC 2011


On 15/08/11 14:38, Dor Laor wrote:
> On 08/15/2011 05:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 08/15/2011 04:12 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
>>> My specific example was that this morning qemu-kvm updated from
>>> 0.15.0-1.fc15 to 0.15.0-0.3.201108040af4922.fc15 and shortly after that
>>> I restarted my host only to find that the VM that had been running for
>>> some time wouldn't start. Looking at the logs showed:
>>>
>>> Unknown savevm section or instance 'kvmclock' 0
>>> load of migration failed
>>
>> That's not good, and it would be nice if we could improve the situation.
>> However,
>
> The above is a bug, there is a mechanism to take care of preserving
> older version format by specifying a 'machine type' flag using -M
> qemu0.15. I do think it is there on default so it is just a but in this
> case.

The command line being used to restart the VM had "-M pc-0.11" as part 
of it in fact.

Tom

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