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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Chijianchun <chijianchun@huawei.com>
Cc: "aliguori@us.ibm.com" <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mtosatti@redhat.com" <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"paul@codesourcery.com" <paul@codesourcery.com>,
	"avi@redhat.com" <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Are there plans to achieve ram live Snapshot feature?
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:38:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52050CE4.6000306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33FB050264B7AD4DBD6583581F2E03104B764728@nkgeml511-mbx.china.huawei.com>

Il 09/08/2013 12:20, Chijianchun ha scritto:
> Now in KVM, when RAM snapshot, vcpus needs stopped, it is Unfriendly
> restrictions to users.  
> 
> Are there plans to achieve ram live Snapshot feature?
> 
> in my mind, Snapshots can not occupy additional too much memory, So when
> the memory needs to be changed, the old memory page is needed to flush
> to the file first.  But flushing to file is too slower than memory,  and
> when flushing, the vcpu or VM is need to be paused until finished
> flushing,  so pause...resume...pause...resume............., more and
> more slower.
> 
> Is this idea feasible? Are there any other thoughts?
> 

This looks very similar to postcopy migration (you can Google it).  The
infrastructure for postcopy migration could be used for this as well.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-09 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-09 10:20 [Qemu-devel] Are there plans to achieve ram live Snapshot feature? Chijianchun
2013-08-09 15:38 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-08-09 15:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-09 15:51   ` Eric Blake
2013-08-12  9:59 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-12 10:26   ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-12 11:33     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-13  2:53       ` Wenchao Xia
2013-08-13  8:21         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-14  1:54           ` Wenchao Xia
2013-08-14  7:53             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-14  8:13               ` Alex Bligh
2013-08-15  2:26               ` Wenchao Xia
2013-08-15  7:49                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-15  8:03                   ` Wenchao Xia

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