That’s only true if you’re running on a hypervisor that uses suspend / resume for live migration. I’m not sure how widespread running illumos on VMware is – the absence of suspend/resume support means that nobody is benefiting from this particular capability today (at least with illumos).
Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: DavidHalko Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 5:18 AM To: illumos-developer Cc: ran...@sibernet.com; oi-dev@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [developer] suspend/resume in Illumos Suspend and Resume is critical for live migration in a data center with external storage to reduce schedules downtime incurred with firmware updates to maintain a secure platform. Thanks, David Halko http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 12, 2019, at 4:01 AM, Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote: > >> On June 11, 2019 9:29:23 PM UTC, ran...@sibernet.com wrote: >> >> >>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Toomas Soome via illumos-developer wrote: >>> >>> I’d say, anything to encourage people to try, use and join to develop >> [illumos] is very welcome. Better laptop support will definitely be >>> bonus. >> >> Betting better graphics support would be higher on the list (yea, the >> other 'dropped' project). >> >> Cheers! >> >> ---- Randy >> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On 11 Jun 2019, at 22:58, Garrett D'Amore <garr...@damore.org> wrote: >>> >>> My gut instinct is that this isn’t that interesting – most everyone >> is running illumos in either VMs, or in datacenter >>> applications where suspend/resume has little if any applicability. >>> >>> While the work itself is probably interesting, and it may enable new >> applications for illumos, the concern I’d have would be >>> detraction from other more pressing work, without any clear use cases >> for it. >>> >>> That said, if someone (you?) wanted to spend cycles on this for >> personal satisfaction, I hardly see any reason to discourage it, >>> and I’m fairly certain if the risks of the new code being introduced >> are small (or well managed by sufficient testing for >>> example), I can’t see any other reason we would reject a suitably >> formed RTI. >>> >>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10 >>> >>> From: ran...@sibernet.com >>> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 11:10 AM >>> To: oi-dev@openindiana.org; develo...@lists.illumos.org >>> Subject: [developer] suspend/resume in Illumos >>> >>> I have a question for developers here: >>> >>> How important is suspend/resume for OI/Illumos (including S4)? >>> >>> One of the incomplete projects left behind was S4 (lack of need, and >> a >>> >>> hard to identify bug stifled it's integration). It is non-trivial, >> and >>> >>> needs updated s/r core code (added configuration and significant >>> >>> restructuring, as well as likely assistance from developers >> knowlegable in >>> >>> other Illumos internals), but if this is an uninteresting feature, it >> is >>> >>> likey not worth the effort (recent bugs suggest that few if anyone >> use >>> >>> it); however, it wouldn't be too hard to resurect (though would still >> take >>> >>> several months of work). >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> ---- Randy >>> >>> illumos / illumos-developer / see discussions + participants + >> delivery options Permalink >> ------------------------------------------ >> illumos: illumos-developer >> Permalink: >> https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Tb3e65f5ac470e30c-Ma4a7672659b46c13f040eb9e >> Delivery options: >> https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription > > For my 2c, I have to use OI in a VM rather than baremetal on my laptop (would > love to some day; it is part of my daily desktop for years now) because of a > mix of these issues. While graphics and wifi drivers might be worked around > by careful choice of hardware for a new rig, effective lack of > sleep/hibernate is a big problem. > > My sessions of desktop OS uptime tend to be weeks and months long, many apps > and tabs open... so rebooting every morning is not quite an option. > > Jim > > -- > Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-developer Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Tb3e65f5ac470e30c-M87936b070d0aa9c1490f0794 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription
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