1:17 p.m.
'xm' uses pause/unpause. libvirt uses suspend/resume. It seems they
are the same. IMHO this should be made explicit in the documentation
(I'm looking at the python help for libvirt).
Diwaker
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2:13 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:17:06AM -0800, Diwaker Gupta wrote:
'xm' uses pause/unpause. libvirt uses suspend/resume. It
seems they
are the same. IMHO this should be made explicit in the documentation
(I'm looking at the python help for libvirt).
Take any OS book, you will see suspend/resume defined. Ask a laptop
user what it means to suspend and resume, it's understood. My goal is
not to copy Xen API and make it LGPL, my goal is to make a simpler API
that more people can use. And IMHO the description are quite precise,
I expect only a small fraction of the potential libxvirt users to
actually have gone though Xen API 'descriptions'.
http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainSuspend
"Suspends an active domain, the process is frozen without further
access to CPU resources and I/O but the memory used by the domain
at the hypervisor level will stay allocated. Use virDomainResume()
to reactivate the domain."
If you think it's ambiguous I take documentation patches !
Daniel
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2:26 p.m.
On 3/5/06, Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:17:06AM -0800, Diwaker Gupta wrote:
> 'xm' uses pause/unpause. libvirt uses suspend/resume. It seems they
> are the same. IMHO this should be made explicit in the documentation
> (I'm looking at the python help for libvirt).
Take any OS book, you will see suspend/resume defined. Ask a laptop
user what it means to suspend and resume, it's understood. My goal is
not to copy Xen API and make it LGPL, my goal is to make a simpler API
that more people can use. And IMHO the description are quite precise,
I expect only a small fraction of the potential libxvirt users to
actually have gone though Xen API 'descriptions'.
Fair enough.
Diwaker
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3:26 p.m.
Daniel Veillard wrote:
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:17:06AM -0800, Diwaker Gupta wrote:
> 'xm' uses pause/unpause. libvirt uses suspend/resume. It seems they
> are the same. IMHO this should be made explicit in the documentation
> (I'm looking at the python help for libvirt).
>
Take any OS book, you will see suspend/resume defined. Ask a laptop
user what it means to suspend and resume, it's understood.
I completely agree
that the verbage in xm is bad here.
It makes me wonder if the appropriate terms for pause/unpause and
save/restore is really suspend/hibernate.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
My goal is
not to copy Xen API and make it LGPL, my goal is to make a simpler API
that more people can use. And IMHO the description are quite precise,
I expect only a small fraction of the potential libxvirt users to
actually have gone though Xen API 'descriptions'.
http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainSuspend
"Suspends an active domain, the process is frozen without further
access to CPU resources and I/O but the memory used by the domain
at the hypervisor level will stay allocated. Use virDomainResume()
to reactivate the domain."
If you think it's ambiguous I take documentation patches !
Daniel
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