Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/10] Allow the monitor to be suspended during non-blocking op

Jamie Lokier
2008-09-10T15:58:54Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> (logically we would copy all of the data of all block devices, but
> that's not very practical, so we assume shared storage).

Speaking of that, if the guest RAM were a memory-mapped file, couldn't
that use shared storage too?

You'd have to be careful: it would need a distributed filesystem with
coherent mappings (i.e. not NFS), but they do exist.

I'm guessing that the bulk of time spent in migration/checkpointing is
saving the RAM image. Using a memory-mapped file on shared storage
for RAM might make that faster. (Or slower!).

-- Jamie