[Qemu-devel] Re: migrate

[Charles Duffy]

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> Ok, in the qemu monitor screen I see the option for migration of an 
> image but I've not been able to find any references on how to start up 
> the receiving qemu session that where not for KVM. I searched the man 
> page, the website, the wiki, and Google does the migration work in 
> non-KVM qemu or not? If it does can someone give me the command line option.

On the receiving end:

receiving_host$ qemu-system-i386 ${YOUR_NORMAL_ARGS} -incoming 
tcp:0.0.0.0:1234

On the sending end:

migrate tcp:receiving_host:1234

That said, I've heard of bugs with live migration of systems with USB 
enabled; if you have problems, you might consider disabling it.