qemu-5.0迁移流程简述

1. Setup

Start guest on destination, connect, enable dirty page logging and more

2. Transfer Memory

Guest continues to run
Bandwidth limitation (controlled by the user)
First transfer the whole memory
Iteratively transfer all dirty pages (pages that were written to by the guest).

3. Stop the guest

And sync VM image(s) (guest’s hard drives).

4. Transfer State

As fast as possible (no bandwidth limitation)
All VM devices’ state and dirty pages yet to be transferred

5. Continue the guest

On destination upon success
Broadcast “I’m over here” Ethernet packet to announce new location of NIC(s).
On source upon failure (with one exception).