Re: BHYVE_SNAPSHOT

In reply to: Rob Wing : "Re: BHYVE_SNAPSHOT"
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From: Vitaliy Gusev <gusev.vitaliy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2023 16:04:02 UTC

> On 2 May 2023, at 18:38, Rob Wing <rob.fx907@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Do you plan on saving the guest memory into the nvlist? If I have VM with 8 gigs of memory, will the nvlist implementation allocate 8 gigs of memory for the nvlist then write it out to disk? Or..?
> 
> All the bullet points look good to me.
> 
> -Rob

Of course no. Guest memory should be saved as is. As possible improvement  -  only dirty memory/pages. 

I was taking about saving with nvlist: device’s variables, registers, internal data, etc. 

Overall description will be provided shortly.

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Vitaliy Gusev