Subject: Re: Suspend on one machine, resume elsewhere [was Re:
	[Swsusp-devel] RE:Re: Thoughts wanted on merging Softwa]
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>, root@mauve.demon.co.uk,
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On Mer, 2003-07-16 at 19:15, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > If you want to migrate programs between machines, run UMLinux, same
> > > config, on both machines. Ouch and you'll need swsusp for UMLinux, too
> > 
> > That might be more important than you think.
> 
> :-). Well, it is also harder than you probably think, because UML is
> *very* strange architecture and it is not at all easy to save/restore
> its state. There were some patches in that area, but it never worked
> (AFAIK).

Would it not be a lot easier to tackle that with qemu, and teach qemu to
freeze/restore virtual machines ?

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