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From: Harry Butterworth <harry@hebutterworth.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: current domU lifecycle work ?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:09:48 +0000
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On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:14 -0500, Andrew D. Ball wrote:

> (1) register a domU with xend (initializes a configuration
> in xenstore)
> (2) turn on that domU
> (3) turn off that domU (without removing it from xenstore)
> (4) unregister that domU with xend (this is destroying the
> domU).

> Is anyone working on stabilizing this?  Have I overlooked
> anything?

Nested within on and off there is save and restore.  Also, at any time
there is migration.  I guess there should be an option to clone.  Then
you have snapshotting and roll-back.  I expect there is more.

Harry.