Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:39:35 +0200
From: Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
       Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
       root@mauve.demon.co.uk,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suspend on one machine, resume elsewhere [was Re: [Swsusp-devel] RE:Re: Thoughts wanted on merging Softwa]
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:17:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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 ?

AFAIK, qemu does virtual processes, but not virtual machines. Running init(1)
from qemu could be fun, anyways ;)

Greets, Antonio.
 
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