Live migration of VMs take multiple hours to complete
Issue
- VMs running memory intensive workloads, such as RHOCP worker nodes, take multiple hours to complete a live migration, or times out a live migration.
- During live migration,
openstack server show -c progress <server id>remains with the same value for hours. even though memory is still being copied from source to target node -
nova-compute.logrepeatedly shows the following messages:2026-01-01 00:00:00.000 2 INFO nova.virt.libvirt.driver [req-aaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaa - - - - -] [instance: aaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaa] Migration running for 244 secs, memory 0% remaining (bytes processed=4275183238, remaining=19784058, total=4294967296); disk 100% remaining (bytes processed=0, remaining=0, total=0).
Environment
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) 16.2
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) 17.1
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