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[Alexandre arents <1773318@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:


Description
===========

When a target host is preparing live-migration, it creates disk
according nova.conf setting CONF.libvirt.images_type
and do not preserve image type disk of instance, making fail live-migration

Use case:
===========
We have to convert a set of existing instance from qcow2 to raw.
In order to proceed we changed images_type of compute hosts to raw,
So that newly spawn instances are in raw.
It mean that during some time(until migration is done)
we may have both qcow2 and raw instances sharing same host(now configured as raw).
We still need to have live-migration working on our legacy instance in qcow2 to other
host now configured as raw (we want to keep qcow2 format on destination)

Steps to reproduce
==================

1) spawn one qcow2 instance on hostA
2) change settings images_type to raw on hostA and hostB
2) try to live migrate instance qcow2 from hostA to hostB
4) the issue occur:
   hostb prepare target disk in raw and qemu on hostb start with original xml settings expecting a qcow2 disk
/var/log/libvirt/qemu/instance-000170c9.log:2018-05-23T07:23:49.936829Z qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/home/instances/bdf1cea0-4d90-4061-bd1e-e20296a97f0e/disk,format=qcow2,...: Image is not in qcow2 format

Expected result
===============
instance keep its original format on target host even if target host have different image type.

Proposed solution:
keep original disk type of instance (patch to follow)

** Affects: nova
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  live migration failed when target host have different image_type than
  instance disk

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  New

Bug description:
  
  Description
  ===========

  When a target host is preparing live-migration, it creates disk
  according nova.conf setting CONF.libvirt.images_type
  and do not preserve image type disk of instance, making fail live-migration

  Use case:
  ===========
  We have to convert a set of existing instance from qcow2 to raw.
  In order to proceed we changed images_type of compute hosts to raw,
  So that newly spawn instances are in raw.
  It mean that during some time(until migration is done)
  we may have both qcow2 and raw instances sharing same host(now configured as raw).
  We still need to have live-migration working on our legacy instance in qcow2 to other
  host now configured as raw (we want to keep qcow2 format on destination)

  Steps to reproduce
  ==================

  1) spawn one qcow2 instance on hostA
  2) change settings images_type to raw on hostA and hostB
  2) try to live migrate instance qcow2 from hostA to hostB
  4) the issue occur:
     hostb prepare target disk in raw and qemu on hostb start with original xml settings expecting a qcow2 disk
  /var/log/libvirt/qemu/instance-000170c9.log:2018-05-23T07:23:49.936829Z qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/home/instances/bdf1cea0-4d90-4061-bd1e-e20296a97f0e/disk,format=qcow2,...: Image is not in qcow2 format

  Expected result
  ===============
  instance keep its original format on target host even if target host have different image type.

  Proposed solution:
  keep original disk type of instance (patch to follow)

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