From 66db46ca83b8fb72f089e33be12e1a55b3b17eb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juan Quintela Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:55:12 +0200 Subject: migration: Deprecate block migration It is obsolete. It is better to use driver-mirror with NBD instead. CC: Kevin Wolf CC: Eric Blake CC: Stefan Hajnoczi CC: Hanna Czenczek Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela Message-ID: <20231018115513.2163-5-quintela@redhat.com> --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index c1613468e6..35c8d7d1d4 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -486,3 +486,13 @@ Use blockdev-mirror with NBD instead. As an intermediate step the ``blk`` functionality can be achieved by setting the ``block`` migration capability to ``true``. But this capability is also deprecated. + +block migration (since 8.2) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Block migration is too inflexible. It needs to migrate all block +devices or none. + +Please see "QMP invocation for live storage migration with +``blockdev-mirror`` + NBD" in docs/interop/live-block-operations.rst +for a detailed explanation. -- cgit v1.2.3