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Re: [Xen-users] Checkpointing


  • To: veillard@xxxxxxxxxx, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx
  • From: "Chris Vaughan" <supercomputer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:14:11 -0600
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So what's the difference between a "Live Migration" & "Save" then?  Does the live migration keep the image open and the save does not?  To me they seam to be 2 peas in a pod but I guess I'm mistaken.

Thanks


On 6/29/06, Daniel Veillard <veillard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 04:56:21PM -0600, Chris Vaughan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way you can save a xen domain without suspending it or stopping
> it?  I want to set up something so if my xen session crashes I can fire up
> another xen session from the save file that I created 5 minutes before the
> crash and hopefully minimize downtime.

  Doesn't work in general because you would have to save the state of the
filesystems too. Xen operations don't allow a save and continue for that
reason I was told.

Daniel

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