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Re: [Xen-users] Checkpointing

To: "Christopher G. Stach II" <cgs@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Checkpointing
From: Tracy R Reed <treed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:16:25 -0700
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Christopher G. Stach II wrote:
> Migration saves VM state and assumes that the filesystem does not
> change.  Checkpointing would have to restore the filesystem to the same
> point in time that the snapshot was taken of the VM.  Perhaps you could
> swing it with CoW or something, but it doesn't work now.

So take an LVM snapshot of the filesystem also. Maintaining network
state would seem to be the harder thing to me.

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Tracy R Reed
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