On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, James Mastros wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:44:30PM -0500, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> > There are always details which complicate things. There are
> > areas like notions of time in the monitor, and other factors
> > peripheral to the CPU/memory state that need to be saved/restored.
> Right. That's why this is non-trivial. The trivial parts are already
> done <G>.
>
> I'm not certian what the big deal is about time. At present, time for the
> guest isn't really linear; it depends on how much time we're scheduled for.
> WRT freezing, we've got two choices:
> 1) Time stops while frozen. This is what I assumed. This shouldn't mess up
> anything except for the RTC being off from reality.
You can solve the RTC problem using a simple custom guest-OS driver.
Doesn't VMWARE do something like that?
-- Ramon
(PS, have been out for a while but perhaps I'll have some time again now
for those mods :). I've got some ideas on performance, will post them
later).
