Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 RFC 13/14] tools/libxc: noarch save code

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 17:38 +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 17/06/14 17:28, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 11:24 +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> >> Save a domain, calling domain type specific function at the appropriate
> >> points.  This implements the xc_domain_save2() API function which is
> >> equivalent to the existing xc_domain_save().
> >>
> >> This writes the image and domain headers, and writes all the PAGE_DATA
> >> records using a "live" process.
> > 
> > It doesn't do "dead" migrate at all?
> 
> No, but I think it would be trivial to add.  Do you think it is necessary?

I think so. libxl offers it as an option I there might be occasions when
you cared more about migrating ASAP rather than minimising the non-live
downtime (e.g. if the h/w was about to catch fire).

Ian.


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