1. Feature Overview: Feature Id: [67247] a. Name of Feature: [6.1 FEAT] Support QEMU block migration (pre-copy) b. Feature Description Support existing Qemu block migration prior to a live migration of a VM 2. Feature Details: Sponsor: LTC Open Virtualization Architectures: x86_64, Arch Specificity: purely common code Affects Kernel Modules: Field does not exist Delivery Mechanism: Other Category: other Request Type: Package - Update Version d. Upstream Acceptance: Field does not exist Sponsor Priority P3 f. Severity: normal IBM Confidential: No Code Contribution: IBM code g. Component Version Target:--- 3. Business Case Currently live migration requires a shared-storage solution. Block migration removes this restriction allowing for the use of live migration in newer markets where a shared-storage solution wasn't available. 4. Primary contact at Red Hat: John Jarvis jjarvis 5. Primary contacts at Partner: Project Management Contact: Michael W. Wortman, wortman.com Technical contact(s): ANTHONY N. LIGUORI, aliguori.com
------- Comment From rsisk.com 2010-10-04 10:36 EDT------- Code Upstream Status: Accepted
------- Comment From aliguori.com 2010-10-25 11:49 EDT------- Defer to 6.2. We're going to focus our energy on post-copy for 6.1.
------- Comment From mcintire.com 2010-11-12 15:30 EDT------- Deferring this feature.
------- Comment From mcintire.com 2011-03-04 10:34 EDT------- IBM is quitting this feature request. Function is already in RHEL 6.0
Closing as CURRENTRELEASE since the functionality exists in 6.0.