How big are your disk image files? 640KB? Mine is 504MB!!! This IS NOT A
GOOD SOLUTION!!!
Remember two things: Keep It Simple Stupid (why many of my Data Structures
Programs just didn't work)
and
whatever is the fastest, the smallest (least memory used--of any kind), and
the simplest--all at once--is the best code.
Drew Northup, N1XIM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Aaron Optimizer Digulla
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 3:17 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [plex86] just a thought
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:02:10PM -0500, Kevin Lawton wrote:
>
> > Calvin Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > If plex86 can save / restore a state then would it be
> possible to save in
> > > the middle of an mp3 song and when the state is restored to
> have the mp3
> > > song continue playing right where it left off without having
> to hit play
> > > again? Or would the devices be in a 'stopped' condition.
> >
> > Well, this demonstrates one of the issues with save/restore; when
> > you have external state involved. Ideally, if the mp3 song is on
> > the disk image (or partition) and it hasn't been deleted/modified,
> > the devices would be init'd to the previous state and the file
> > would resume playing.
> >
> > The assumptions are that no changes have been made to any
> > of the VM's state, including the disk image file. And that
> > exactly the same config options are used, the same compile
> > options, etc. We might want to checksum certain files like
> > the disk image file, to make sure they haven't been modified.
> > But that of course, takes time.
>
> We'll have to checksum the disk images but we can probably
> save all relevant options in the snapshot so there should
> be no problem with that.
>
> Another solution would be to save the disk image in the
> snapshot. This would allow to debug plex86 much more
> easily since you could save the state just before the
> bug happens and continue until the bug's gone.
>
> --
> ==============================================
> Sowatec AG, CH-8330 Pf�ffikon (ZH)
> Witzbergstr. 7, http://www.sowatec.com
> Tel: +41-(0)1-952 55 55
> Fax: +41-(0)1-952 55 66
> ----------------------------------------------
> Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ==============================================
>
