Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC V10 0/4] domain snapshot document

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2015-02-01 at 20:55 +0000, Dave Scott wrote:
> 
> > On 29 Jan 2015, at 16:36, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 11:25 +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote:
> >> Changes to V9:
> > 
> > This looks good to me, thanks.
> > 
> > Ian/Wei do you have any comments? xapi folks?
> 
> The API looks sensible to me.
> 
> Xapi normally manages disk snapshots through itâs own plug-in mechanism. Will 
> it still be possible to
> 
> * libxl_domain_suspend
> * do custom snapshot stuff involving tapdisk/ ceph/ ...
> * libxl_domain_create_restore
> ?
> 
> If so then everything is fine for us.

I think so, but I'll let Chunyan confirm for sure.

The main thing which you cannot do without going through libxl is
operations which involve talking to a live domain, i.e. anything which
might talk QMP to the associate qemu process.

Ian.



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