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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: "Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>,
	KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zhanghailiang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC]VM live snapshot proposal
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:19:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53148169.6060700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140303125520.GF4850@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com>

Il 03/03/2014 13:55, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
>>> > > Due to memory-modifications may happen in kvm, qemu, or vhost, the key-part is how we
>>> > > can provide common page-modify-tracking-and-saving api, we completed a prototype by
>>> > > simply add modified-page tracking/saving function in qemu, and it seems worked fine.
>> >
>> > Yes, this is the tricky part.  To be honest, I think this is the reason
>> > no one has submitted patches - it's a hard task and the win isn't that
>> > great (you can already migrate to file).
> So why don't we simply reuse the existing migration code?

I think this is different in the same way that block-backup and 
block-mirror are different.  Huangpeng's proposal would let you make a 
consistent snapshot of disks and RAM.

Paolo

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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>,
	Zhanghailiang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>,
	KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC]VM live snapshot proposal
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:19:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53148169.6060700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140303125520.GF4850@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com>

Il 03/03/2014 13:55, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
>>> > > Due to memory-modifications may happen in kvm, qemu, or vhost, the key-part is how we
>>> > > can provide common page-modify-tracking-and-saving api, we completed a prototype by
>>> > > simply add modified-page tracking/saving function in qemu, and it seems worked fine.
>> >
>> > Yes, this is the tricky part.  To be honest, I think this is the reason
>> > no one has submitted patches - it's a hard task and the win isn't that
>> > great (you can already migrate to file).
> So why don't we simply reuse the existing migration code?

I think this is different in the same way that block-backup and 
block-mirror are different.  Huangpeng's proposal would let you make a 
consistent snapshot of disks and RAM.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-03 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-03  1:13 [RFC]VM live snapshot proposal Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-03  1:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-03 12:32 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-03-03 12:32   ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-03-03 12:55   ` Kevin Wolf
2014-03-03 12:55     ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2014-03-03 13:19     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-03-03 13:19       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-03 13:30       ` Kevin Wolf
2014-03-03 13:30         ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2014-03-03 13:47         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-03 13:47           ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-03 14:04           ` Kevin Wolf
2014-03-03 14:04             ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2014-03-03 14:55           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-03 14:55             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-03 19:52           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-03-03 19:52             ` [Qemu-devel] " Andrea Arcangeli
2014-03-04  1:35             ` Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-04  1:35               ` [Qemu-devel] " Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-05 14:46               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-03-05 14:46                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andrea Arcangeli
2014-03-05  1:52             ` Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-05  1:52               ` [Qemu-devel] " Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-05 14:55               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-03-05 14:55                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andrea Arcangeli
2014-03-04  1:28         ` Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-04  1:28           ` [Qemu-devel] " Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-04  9:40           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-04  9:40             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-05  1:00             ` Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-05  1:00               ` Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-05  9:09               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-06  1:42             ` Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-06  1:42               ` Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-06  9:14               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-04  1:06     ` Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-04  1:06       ` [Qemu-devel] " Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-03 13:18   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-03 13:18     ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-04  1:02   ` Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-04  1:02     ` [Qemu-devel] " Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-04  8:54     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-03-04  8:54       ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-03-04  9:05       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-04  9:05         ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-04 11:28         ` Wenchao Xia
2014-03-04 11:28           ` Wenchao Xia
2014-03-05  0:46       ` Huangpeng (Peter)
2014-03-05  0:46         ` [Qemu-devel] " Huangpeng (Peter)

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