Re: [uml-devel] thoughts on suspending UML

[Jeff D. <jd...@ka...>]

mu...@ag... said:
> But in UML, there's also host-side stuff that has to be restored. In
> particular, memory mappings on the host have to be restored, and the
> process tracing needs to be set up. 

So?  What's the problem?

> For example, when it's saving the suspend data, it writes to a swap
> area. For UML, we could just write the suspend data to a file on the
> host filesystem.

And that file has been set up as a UML swap area.

> My second idea, then, was to save the suspend data (kernel text,
> kernel data, kernal bss, UML physical memory, etc) into the host
> fileystem. Then to restore, I'd fire up UML, but have it map the saved
> data into memory. It would then look at the process table to restore
> the running UML processes.

And how is this different from swsusp, except that you decided to reinvent
the wheel?

				Jeff