This has been mentioned--I just kinda spelled the acronym wrong.......ACPI.
This way the guest does the freezing so long as the guest BIOS & guest OS
can handle it. It sounds a lot safer to me. Then all the we need to know
is what info an ACPI BIOS saves to disk when it hibernates. Everything else
can then be handled like a raw init from a cold-start (as this would be what
the guest OS would expect).
Drew Northup, N1XIM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Patrick Mauritz
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 4:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [plex86] just a thought
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:00:54PM -0500, Kenneth C. Arnold wrote:
> > it had done. But for filesystems, the OS thinks it can do whatever it
> > wants with the filesystem and what was there a second ago is still
> > there now (gfs being a very notable exception). Don't argue with it on
> > this regard; you'll lose.
> hmm - then why not enhance those hd-images to contain several
> chunks of data
> someting like:
> - stream-table
> - timestamp of freeze - if older than last modification of the hd-image
> ignore freeze status and start up normally
> - stream 1: hd-image
> - stream 2: place to hold freeze-information of the virtual cpu
> - stream 3: freeze-information of the emulated graphic-card
> (caches or whatever)
> - ...
>
> or maybe enhance hd-support for large disk-images and use a
> partition on it
> like those bios' suspend features
>
> just some random ideas,
> p. mauritz
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