[pve-devel] livemigration problem with usb-tablet (crashs)

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

Hi Dietmar,

User reports some problem with live migration when usb tablet is present.

http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/8455-2-0RC1-Live-Migration-VM-Crashes-after-a-few-minutes

I have tested it myself, depend of the guest os, you can have crash of the vm if you move mouse after live migration.

I see some users reports on qemu mailing list, I have send mail to redhat developper which maintain the usb, but don't have receive response yet.
I think the usb part of qemu is a little broken for the moment ;)



I have a workaround for it:

1) unplug usb tablet before migration

2) then re-add it after the migration.


What do you think about it ?



1) is easy, just a qm monitor before doing migration on the source host.

2) not so easy, I'll try to readd device in at the end of vm_start, but it's not working.(too early, I think the target vm is not yet migrate).
   So I have read the code, I think It could be done at migration phase3,from the host,so we are sure that migration is done.
   But I need to send a qemu monitor command from source host to target host. (And I don't know....)

   Other possiblity, is to plug the tablet when connecting to console for the first time.
   But I need also to send qemu monitor command to a remote host, if the vm is not on the same server that the pve-manager.

   Can I use something like 'ssh targethost -> qm monitor XXX sendmonitorcommand" ?