Re: [Xen-devel] xl save -c issues with Windows 7 Ultimate

[Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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

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