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authorJuan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>2023-10-18 13:55:12 +0200
committerJuan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>2023-10-31 08:44:33 +0100
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migration: Deprecate block migration
It is obsolete.  It is better to use driver-mirror with NBD instead.

CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
CC: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20231018115513.2163-5-quintela@redhat.com>
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@@ -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.