Re: To save or not to save

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Marc-André Lureau
<marcandre lureau gmail com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org>
> wrote:
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>> Mostly just thinking aloud here (hence this email rather than patches
>> on bz)! Ideas?
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> So this saving from guest memory to disk involving eventually reading a lot
> from guest swap and writing back to a file on host disk, can we avoid it?
>
> Can we just keep the guest swap the way it is? a bit like hibernate, so
> instead of swaping out and storing the whole guest memory to disk again, we
> would just ask the guest to swap in everything and that's it, ie hibernate?
> That wouldn't use the libvirt migration I guess, but something a bit
> different perhaps?

I don't know why that would work any differently cause guest will also
then move all its RAM to storage so if most of the RAM was swapped
out, in the end its the same thing, no?

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124