Rhialto <rhialto@falu.nl> writes:
> 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?

I believe that at least some people have Xen doing that.

Perry