On 11/26/2013 04:58 AM, Stéphane Graber wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 04:04:36AM +0200, Marian Marinov wrote: >> Hey guys, >> I just read on LWN about the checkpoint/restore tool: >> http://lwn.net/Articles/574917/ >> >> With this, it seams possible to freeze and restore a whole container from >> one node to another. >> >> I'll give it a try this week to give more details on how it actually works. >> >> Marian > > I think I last tried it with CRIU 0.8 without much success but I took an > action item during Ubuntu's planning even last week to try with a newer > release and get in touch with Pavel if I'm still having issues. > > From what we discussed at Linux Plumbers, CRIU should indeed let you > dump a full container and restore it on the same machine or on another > so long as the filesystem and any other external dependency of the > container matches. > > If I can get this working and they've resolved a few of the known issues > (specifically the fact that it'd only build on x86_64), then the plan is > to add API calls to LXC's API that'll implement the checkpoint/restore > feature using CRIU. > I'm going to test this today on CentOS 6 with kernel 3.12. So if you want, you can wait for my results :)
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