Live Migration Failure With Error: "The instance requires a newer hypervisor version than has been provided."

Problem

Live Migration Failure With Error: "The instance requires a newer hypervisor version than has been provided."

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Environment

  • Platform9 Managed OpenStack - All versions

Answer

  • This is an expected behaviour with Nova. By default, a live migration from higher libvirt/qemu versions to lower versions is not supported.
  • Nova has the following codes to check hypervisor compatibility.
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Additional Information

Refer to a similar issue reported by RedHat: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3587091

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