process checkpoint restore facility now in DragonFly BSD

[Peter Kieser]

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--Peter

Siddharth Aggarwal wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I am responding to a post back in Oct 2003 when the checkpointing feature
>was announced for DragonFly. I have been doing some research on this, and
>have seen some projects that use Xen VMM to achieve checkpoints of guest
>OSes.
>
>So I was looking for inputs from people as to what everyone feels about
>checkpointing, whether it should be done at the physical machine level or
>VM level. Pros and Cons of each approach, if any further development was
>done on DragonFly for checkpoint since then and if it was stopped, why?
>Are there serious limitations to checkpointing a physical machine?
>
>Sorry for such a vague posting, but I thought this would be a good
>platform to get some feedback.
>
>Thanks,
>Sid.
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