From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOtx2-0006kZ-4y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:46:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOtww-0006de-J0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:46:15 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49657 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOtww-0006dP-Cf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:46:10 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:35294) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOtwv-0000pE-Pj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:46:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4A55F49F.1070601@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:46:07 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add "core dump"-like capability References: <1247140059-5034-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <4A55F3DD.3080802@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4A55F3DD.3080802@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > But really, live migration gives you all the state you need. Why not > just introduce a third-party program that you could live migrate to via > exec? dd can be such a program, but how would you restart the VM at the end of migration? Paolo