libvirt undefines the source domain after a migration but keeps its NVRAM
file. A VM created later on that host with the same name reuses the file
and starts with the old VM's UEFI variables (boot entries, enrolled keys):
checked on libvirt 11.10, where only VIR_DOMAIN_START_RESET_NVRAM
recreates it from the template.
After a successful migration the file is now deleted on the source, as a
volume of the pool on libvirt's NVRAM directory or of a transient one.
Only a file in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram, and only when the destination
cannot create a marker file the source just created there (an exclusive
create also fails on shared storage whose listing an NFS client caches).
A failed removal is logged with the migration, which stands and is
recorded.
What migrate_instance did around the migration itself:
- It checked the destination with a 1 s TCP probe of the libvirt port,
which passes while libvirt is down or refuses the login. It now uses
the compute's connection status, as the rest of the app does.
- Two requests for the same VM waited for the compute locks one after
the other; the second then migrated with the VM's old location. The
VM's record is read again under the locks, and the request is
refused when the VM is no longer on the source.
- Restoring autostart on the destination came after the migration but
before the database move; when it failed, the VM ran on the
destination while the app recorded it on the source. Autostart is
now read from libvirt and a failure to restore it is only logged.
- A database failure after a successful migration was logged as
nothing; the log now says the VM migrated and recording it failed.
- When the destination's list had already made a record for the VM,
the merge kept the owners but dropped the template mark.
moveto read the VM state for each flag and dropped options that did
not fit it, so a request could run as something else than asked; the
log then named the mode from the form ("live" or "offline"), not the
one used. The API did not log at all and answered "instance migrate is
started" after the migration had finished.
- moveto reads the state once. A running VM migrates live, or without
live paused for the transfer (non-live); a paused VM stays paused; a
shut-off VM moves offline. Live for a shut-off VM, offline for a
running or paused one, and any other state are refused before
anything changes. unsafe, auto converge (live only) and compressed
apply to a running VM.
- migrate_instance logs the outcome for the VM page and the API: the
mode and options used, or the error. The API answers
"instance is migrated (<mode>)" and accepts requests that leave out
an optional option.
- Post copy is gone from the form, the view and the API: only the
flag was set, and without migrateStartPostCopy, which the app never
called, the migration never switched to post copy.
