Re: xl save -c issues with Windows 7 Ultimate

[Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>]

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On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com> wrote:

> At 15:31 +0100 on 03 May (1304436713), Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 15:09 +0100, Shriram Rajagopalan wrote:
> >
> > > Remus works with HVM domains via normal xenstore based suspend/resume.
> > > Only PV-HVM support is "disabled" for the moment.
> >
> > I'm confused ;-)
> >
> > PV-HVM uses PV suspend, which can be triggered either by xenstore or the
> > suspend evtchn, but the choice of which is mostly orthogonal to whether
> > or not suspend cancellation is supported.
> >
> > The alternative to PV suspend is the inject an ACPI S3 (or whatever)
> > event option, isn't it?
>
> The alternative is not to involve the OS at all; just use the normal HVM
> save and restore functions.  For Remus, where downtime will be low and
> storage consistency is handled elsewhere, that's good enough.
>
> Tim.
>
>
Enabling it is a matter of just removing the check for pvhvm, which I ll
remove
and send out a patch soon. :-)
 I was waiting for the last remus patch (remus: fix incorrect error handling
for
switch_qemu_logdirty...) to get pulled in before sending the patch.

shriram

>  --
> Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>
> Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
> Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)
>
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