Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

Herbert Xu
2006-05-09T13:26:13Z

Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Possibly having to page in the process and switching to it would add
> to the live migration time. More importantly, having to install an
> additional program in the guest is certainly not very convenient.

Sorry I'm still not convinced. What's there to stop me from suspending
my laptop to disk, moving it from port A to port B and resuming it?

Wouldn't I be in exactly the same situation? By the same reasoning we'd
be adding a gratuitous ARP routine to every single laptop network driver.

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