From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Chun Yan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
Cc: Ian.Jackson@citrix.com, Jim Fehlig <JFEHLIG@suse.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [RFC V7 3/3] xl snapshot-xxx Design
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:19:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1414577941.29975.5.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545116830200006600074115@soto.provo.novell.com>
On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 02:32 -0600, Chun Yan Liu wrote:
> >> >
> >> > 4. xl snapshot-xxx implementation details
> >>
> >> How do these interact with xl create/destroy/shutdown/save/restore?
> >>
> >> e.g. does destroying a domain remove any snapshots?
> >
> > Since in xl domain is deleted when destroyed/shutdown/save, no state
> > like previously in xend, created but not started, deleted only when issue
> > 'delete' command.
> >
> > I don't think clearly now about:
> > how to handle snapshots when destroy/shutdown/save/migrate a domain.
> > In theory, if a domain is deleted, the snapshots should all be deleted.
> > But this way, I don't know how much value this operation can bring to users.
> > Those snapshot are still usable. One can start a new domain from a snapshot.
> > There is memory state (can restore memory, restore config) and disk
> > snapshot (can restore disk status).
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions?
>
> As described above, is there any suggestions?
I'm afraid not, it all depends on the usecases I suppose.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-29 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-10 8:48 [RFC V7 0/3] domain snapshot document Chunyan Liu
2014-10-10 8:48 ` [RFC V7 1/3] libxl domain snapshot introduction Chunyan Liu
2014-10-20 15:59 ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-21 3:25 ` Chun Yan Liu
2014-10-10 8:48 ` [RFC V7 2/3] libxl domain snapshot API design Chunyan Liu
2014-10-20 16:11 ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-21 4:18 ` Chun Yan Liu
2014-10-22 3:59 ` Chun Yan Liu
2014-10-29 10:26 ` Ian Campbell
2014-11-03 7:37 ` Chun Yan Liu
2014-10-10 8:48 ` [RFC V7 3/3] xl snapshot-xxx Design Chunyan Liu
2014-10-20 16:39 ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-21 5:37 ` Chun Yan Liu
2014-10-22 4:10 ` Chun Yan Liu
2014-10-29 8:32 ` Chun Yan Liu
2014-10-29 10:19 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2014-10-29 8:34 ` Chun Yan Liu
2014-10-29 10:22 ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-17 6:04 ` [RFC V7 0/3] domain snapshot document Chun Yan Liu
2014-10-17 9:50 ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-20 16:12 ` Ian Campbell
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