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[Migration] Verify compatible CPU & hypervisor capabilities across migration

Open balamuruhans opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

Explore and add scenarios to verify CPU compat migration to support POWER 8 <-> POWER9 migration and to verify Hypervisor capabilities, need to do some background work for this.

balamuruhans avatar Jun 06 '18 09:06 balamuruhans

@balamuruhans I do remember you have contributed cpu compat mode migration patch in https://github.com/autotest/tp-libvirt/pull/1312. Will the differences be to add Hypervisor capabilities verification? What will be your verification points?

dzhengfy avatar Jun 07 '18 06:06 dzhengfy

@dzhengfy you are right! I worked on compat mode migration on the PR mentioned. I have to do some exploration on this, it would be great if you can help or suggest me on this.

balamuruhans avatar Jun 07 '18 08:06 balamuruhans

In x86_64 machines, the cpu features are considered to be checked before and after migration, especially for cpu mode='host-model'. But this seems not applied to Power as Power cpu does not have .

dzhengfy avatar Jun 14 '18 07:06 dzhengfy