On Fri 09 Mar 2007 at 15:57:50 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> As Manuel points out, it is actually not that simple. Ideally, you
> want to write out to the file system, and that means you can induce
> lots of state in the kernel, and thus you risk writing out an
> inconsistent set of data structures. Even if you are only writing out
> to the swap partition, it is still a bit of work to make sure that you
> don't end up writing out something that will crash when read back in.

It seems it's a lot like migrating a VM from one real machine to
another. Isn't Xen supposed to support that? Or did that never get past
the "interesting paper" stage?

> Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com
-Olaf.
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