[Lguest] [LGUEST] Basic Suspend and Resume Support

[Glauber de Oliveira Costa]

On Feb 2, 2008 10:15 PM, Mark Wallis <lguest at markwallis.id.au> wrote:
> On 02/02/2008, at 8:20 PM, salil kanitkar wrote:
> > we have been working on suspend and resume support for lguest.
> Excellent.
> > Our approach is to suspend all the processes active in user space of
> > lguest
> > using one of the existing methods of process check pointing with a few
> Does this mean that essentially you are only suspending the state of
> user-space rather than the state of the guest kernel ?
>
> To me, this sounds more like "hibernate" rather than "suspend"
>
> Mind you, that would still be very useful :-)

 One way to suspend all processes running in lguest userspace, at
once, is suspending lguest itself, i.e., stop scheduling it. It can be
done in the host itself, but putting it in a wait queue, but it's
probably easier to send a sigstop to the launcher


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