It was a general question based on the way I've used VMware and VirtualBox.
In a data center use case it's not a valid option. On Jul 24, 2015 1:26 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote: > > But in a server context, why would you want this? > > - Garrett > > > On Jul 24, 2015, at 5:27 AM, Nahum Shalman <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > On 07/23/2015 11:33 PM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: > >> On 23 July 2015 at 19:59, Simon Davis via smartos-discuss > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> From my Googling it doesn't seem like it's possible to suspend a KVM > >>> zone. Will this functionality be added to SmartOS? > >> I don't believe we have support for suspending a KVM guest, and it's > >> certainly not something that there seems to be much call for. What > >> problem are you trying to solve? > > > > If your guest OS has a hibernation feature (where it dumps DRAM state to > > swap and knows how to read it back in on boot), you could conceivably > > configure it to do hibernation when it receives the ACPI shutdown signal. > > It's not as elegant as having the hypervisor do it for arbitrary guest > > configurations, but it might solve your problem... > > > > Windows definitely has that, and I'm pretty sure various Linux > > distributions can do it these days too. > > > > -Nahum > > > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
