From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751590AbWDCQpx (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:45:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751625AbWDCQpw (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:45:52 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn2.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.38]:27250 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751544AbWDCQpv (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:45:51 -0400 Message-ID: <443151B4.7010401@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:47:48 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060330 SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kir Kolyshkin CC: akpm@osdl.org, Nick Piggin , sam@vilain.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , serue@us.ibm.com, Alexey Kuznetsov , herbert@13thfloor.at Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [RFC] Virtualization steps References: <1143228339.19152.91.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200603282029.AA00927@bbb-jz5c7z9hn9y.digitalinfra.co.jp> <4429A17D.2050506@openvz.org> In-Reply-To: <4429A17D.2050506@openvz.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > OpenVZ will have live zero downtime migration and suspend/resume some > time next month. > Please clarify. Currently a migration involves: - stopping or suspending the instance - backing up the instance and all of its data - creating an environment for the instance on a new machine - transporting the data to a new machine - installing the instance and all data - starting the instance If you could just briefly cover how you do each of these steps with zero downtime... -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me