Subject: Re: SOC project idea
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Rhialto <rhialto@falu.nl>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/17/2007 00:01:21
On Thu 15 Mar 2007 at 20:25:04 +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> It does. But it's not the guest that is doing the work; the dom0
> is. It's a lot like APM's suspend/resume to disk, where it's the
> BIOS which is dumping/restoring the RAM content. Here we're talking about
> the OS itself dumping/restoring its states, which makes it at lot more
> difficult.

Well yes, but I was thinking to reduce the problem to a known solved
one. Why not "simply" require Xen if you want suspend-to-disk? How much
overhead is there if you only run 1 VM?

> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
-Olaf.
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