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Re: [Xen-devel] A migration framework for external devices

To: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] A migration framework for external devices
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 23:28:17 +0200
Cc: "Cihula, Joseph" <joseph.cihula@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ronald Perez <ronpz@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Scarlata, Vincent R" <vincent.r.scarlata@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:16:37PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:

>  To be a bit clearer on the idea of the framework: It would consist of a 
> deamon running on the target machine whose different plug-ins know how to 
> handle the migration of different pieces of state information and know how 
> to de-serialize them (which mere 'scp' would not do).

So an underlying assumption would be that the local and remove real or
virtual devices support serialize/deserialize of state, correct?

Cheers,
Muli
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