Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] More robust migration

[Jamie Lokier]

Paul Brook wrote:
> I suspect that in practice live migration of a VM between different qemu 
> versions ends up comparable to in-place live kernel upgrades. i.e. it takes 
> an awful lot of work and care to make it happen, and in practice isn't going 
> to happen for any particularly useful span of versions.

On the other hand, stored snapshots of guests which are ready to run
in a particular state are quite useful.  I'm under the impression the
migration code is/will be useful for storing snapshots of system (not
disk) state too.  Is that right?

-- Jamie