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From: Ronen Hod <rhod@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: moving fsfreeze support from the userland guest agent to the guest kernel
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:28:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E3ED941.5080601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110727152457.GK18528@redhat.com>

Well, we want to support Microsoft's VSS, and that requires a guest 
agent that communicates with all the "writers" (applications), waiting 
for them to flush their app data in order to generate a consistent 
app-level snapshot. The VSS platform does most of the work.
Still, at the bottom line, the agent's role is only to find the right 
moment in time. This moment can be relayed back to libvirt, and from 
there do it according to your suggestion, so that the guest agent does 
not do the freeze, and it is actually not a mandatory component.

Ronen.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-07 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-27 15:24 [Qemu-devel] RFC: moving fsfreeze support from the userland guest agent to the guest kernel Andrea Arcangeli
2011-07-27 16:07 ` Michael Roth
2011-07-27 16:40   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-07-28  8:54     ` Jes Sorensen
2011-07-28 15:26       ` Michael Roth
2011-07-27 16:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-27 16:50   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-07-27 18:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-27 19:47     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-07-28  8:56     ` Jes Sorensen
2011-07-28  2:53 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2011-07-28  8:03   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-07-28 15:11     ` Michael Roth
2011-07-29  0:29       ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2011-08-07 18:28 ` Ronen Hod [this message]
2011-08-08 13:26   ` Luiz Capitulino

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