From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: "Ahmed M. Azab" <amazab@ncsu.edu>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Taking live snapshots of running VMs
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:38:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1AC47A.9000900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKJL-GgTU+zFmkyufM+D6E+bFaF7f-rNdFnOowGmkk47jjkz4A@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/09/11 00:24, Ahmed M. Azab wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to take a live memory snapshot of a running VM without
> freezing or stopping this VM?
>
> I explored the Qemu code and documentation and I found two ways to
> take a snapshot:
What you are talking about is called a 'checkpoint', not a snapshot.
There has been a lot of confusion around the naming, but it really helps
if we try to use the right names.
Checkpoints are for things you want to be able to restart, ie. with
memory, snapshots are just data, ie. disks.
Cheers,
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-11 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-08 22:24 [Qemu-devel] Taking live snapshots of running VMs Ahmed M. Azab
2011-07-09 6:51 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-07-09 9:32 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-07-11 9:38 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2011-07-11 15:11 ` Kevin Wolf
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