On 2012-02-14 19:05, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2012-02-09 04:28, Wen Congyang wrote: >> The new monitor command dump may take long time to finish. So we need run it >> at the background. > > How does it work? Like live migration, i.e. you retransmit (overwrite) > already written but then dirtied pages? Hmm... no. > > What does background mean then? What is the use case? What if the user > decides to resume the vm?
OK, that is addressed in patch 15! I would suggest merging it into this patch. It makes sense to handle that case gracefully right from the beginning. OK, now I have some other question: What is the point of rate-limiting the dump? The guest is not running, thus not competing for bandwidth. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
