4.4.2. Additional Options for the virsh migrate Command

--direct - used for direct migration

--p2p - used for peer-to-peer migration

--tunnelled - used for tunneled migration

--persistent - leaves the domain in a persistent state on the destination host physical machine

--undefinesource - removes the guest virtual machine on the source host physical machine

--suspend - leaves the domain in a paused state on the destination host physical machine

--change-protection - enforces that no incompatible configuration changes will be made to the domain while the migration is underway; this option is implicitly enabled when supported by the hypervisor, but can be explicitly used to reject the migration if the hypervisor lacks change protection support.

--unsafe - forces the migration to occur, ignoring all safety procedures.

--verbose - displays the progress of migration as it is occurring

--abort-on-error - cancels the migration if a soft error (such as an I/O error) happens during the migration process.

--migrateuri - the migration URI which is usually omitted.

--domain [string]- domain name, id or uuid

--desturi [string]- connection URI of the destination host physical machine as seen from the client(normal migration) or source(p2p migration)

--migrateuri - migration URI, usually can be omitted

--timeout [seconds]- forces a guest virtual machine to suspend when the live migration counter exceeds N seconds. It can only be used with a live migration. Once the timeout is initiated, the migration continues on the suspended guest virtual machine.

--dname [string] - changes the name of the guest virtual machine to a new name during migration (if supported)

--xml - the filename indicated can be used to supply an alternative XML file for use on the destination to supply a larger set of changes to any host-specific portions of the domain XML, such as accounting for naming differences between source and destination in accessing underlying storage. This option is usually omitted.