Boys,

On Wednesday 11 November 2009, Boyd Fletcher wrote:
> Do y'all have an good technical explaining how teleportion works
> internally? You it be possible to get access to the instruction stream?

teleportation is related to saving the machine state. Remember,
when you shut down a VM, you will be asked if you want to power
off the VM, if you want to send the ACPI shutdown event or if
you want to save the VM state and then terminate the VM. If you
choose the latter, the next time you start the VM it will
continue at the exact same place where it was suspended, even
at the exact same instruction.

A saved state of a VM contains the internal state of every
component of the VMM, that is the virtual CPU state, the state of
the virtual MMU and the state of all virtual devices. For
teleportation you only need to transfer this state from one
host (the origin) to another host (the target). On the target
one has to start a VM with a dummy state. A VBoxManage command
takes care of this. The state of this VM will be replaced by the
state of the VM at the origin.

Of course, all attached disk images and CDROM images must be
shared between the two hosts, for instance by putting them on
an NFS file system.

Kind regards,

Frank
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