Author Archives: ebl

OpenStack: How to enable live-migration on KVM

Posted on October 26, 2017 by ebl

For quite some time I had live-migration on my mind but never really had the time to dig into this deep enough to get it working. But a couple of weeks ago this topic came up again, we were planning … Continue reading →

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How to migrate instances from Xen to KVM

Posted on August 10, 2017 by ebl

This post is a short one, basically it contains only two steps. The goal is to be able to launch a Xen instance on a KVM host. Currently, we are testing KVM as hypervisor for our private (OpenStack) cloud as … Continue reading →

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Ceph: How to enable nova live snapshots on Xen hypervisor

Posted on January 26, 2017 by ebl

Currently, our company is in the middle of a migration process, trying to move our existing virtual machines into our private OpenStack cloud (Mitaka). Some of them will be moved, others will be re-installed. One of the major issues we … Continue reading →

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