On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 04:26:10PM -0800, Michael MacFaden wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-asai-vmm-mib-02.txt
>
> Think we need to clarify the concept of 'pause' in both admin
> and operational states.
[...]
> A virtual machine is a OS process. An operator can suspend it in
> memory (pkill -HUP ${myvm}). HOST-RESOURCES-MIB (rfc 2790) would
> report the VM process in hrSWRunTable as state notRunnable.
I think this is not necessarily correct. With Xen, for example,
virtual machines are not showing up as OS processes.
> That's how I naturally think of what 'pause' as opposed to 'suspend
> or hibernate' which takes the process out of memory deep-freeze's
> running state (for a given CPU hardware) to persistent storage.
I think that is actually what libvirt understands by a paused domain
as well. In fact, they have an enum VIR_DOMAIN_PAUSED in
virDomainState with a comment saying "the domain is paused by user".
So are we all talking about the same state here and all you are looking
for is more text? If so, what about a concerete proposal we can word
smith?
/js
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