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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: "Mike D. Day" <ncmike@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:32:07 -0500
Cc: "Cihula, Joseph" <joseph.cihula@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ronald Perez <ronpz@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Scarlata, Vincent R" <vincent.r.scarlata@xxxxxxxxx>
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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?

Yes, that's correct.

Would also be very cool if the framework had pre-migration hooks. For example, allow someone to write a plugin to verify that the target host is qualified and in a good state to accept a migration before it actually starts.

Also, some physical devices may need to be configured/re-configured on the target prior to a migration (infiniband, fiber channel, iscsi) and it would be good to have plugins for that as well.

Mike

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