Re: BHYVE_SNAPSHOT

From: Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 00:45:56 UTC
whats the meaning of o_O ?

Il lun 1 mag 2023, 02:04 Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> ha scritto:

> o_O
>
> --
> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
>
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 23:42 Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@shrew.net> wrote:
>
>> On 4/29/23 06:17, void wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Where can I read up about the recently introduced BHYVE_SNAPSHOT ?
>> >
>> > I can only find terse information about what it does (in man 5 src.conf)
>> > but not about how to use it and/or why.
>>
>> This began as sponsored student work with the Politehnica University of
>> Bucharest back in 2016 with an eye toward developing Live MIgration as a
>> feature. The initial bhyve save/restore patch was committed back in 2020
>> ...
>>
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/rS360648
>>
>> Student projects related to bhyve continued until last year, but we gave
>> up due to there being such a massive accumulation of patches with no
>> path to getting them committed. We tried reaching out to project
>> maintainers and the FreeBSD foundation alike for support and feedback,
>> but there seems to be little to no interest. There have also been
>> attempts by companies that rely on these features to and get them
>> improved and committed. Unfortunately they don't appear to be having
>> much luck either ...
>>
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38858#885651
>>
>> Would you like to see support for VM snapshots in the generic kernel?
>> How about support for saving/restore checkpoints using QCOW2, VMDK via
>> libvdsk? How about support for warm or live migration? How about USB
>> device pass-through? There are experimental patches for all these
>> features that were developed by students at UPB. In a lot of cases,
>> there are open reviews that have been waiting on feedback for ages. Here
>> is a a presentation given by Elena from UPB just last month at the
>> FreeBSD devsumit in Tokyo ...
>>
>>
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202303?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Presentation+-+bhyvecon.pdf
>>
>> The case is quite plain. I'm not sure what the solution is to this
>> problem. I'd love to hear feedback from the community about how I've got
>> this completely wrong and how the course could be corrected. That would
>> be something.
>>
>> -Matthew
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