...and the demo was "really cool"! (Obviously, I'm a child of the 50's)
But unless I missed something, it does not directly address your stated
desire: to save a virtual machine status for subsequent restart
The Live Guest Migration presentation moved guests on the fly from one CEC
to another CEC. There were lots (LOTS) of restrictions regarding what
circumstances would prevent a guest from being migrated. If this ever
sees GA, one would expect IBM to probably work at remove as many
restrictions as feasible as expeditiously as possible.
The idea of saving a guest for later quick restart ("kickstart", if that's
not trademarked) is intriguing. Could you supply a business case wherein
such a quickstart would provide real value to any/your business?
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
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"Rich Smrcina" <[email protected]>
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There has been a demo of this technology at SHARE. See the presentation
archive on
linux390.org. Romney White discusses the technology. It may even come to
a release of
z/VM in the not too distant future... :)
Ivan Warren wrote:
> I'm not sure this hasn't been asked (and subsequently answered) before,
> but couldn't find anything in the archives pertaining to this (possibly
> due to my lack of correctly using the search tool !)
>
> Anyway...
>
> Does anyone know if z/VM will eventually support ...
>
> - A Possibility to save a virtual machine status for subsequent restart
> - SAVESYS doesn't really cut the bill since it doesn't save I/O status.
> - And eventually the possibility to perform a 'hot' move of a virtual
> machine from a z/VM system to another (a la VMotion if you get my
drift).
>
> --Ivan
>
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