Re: [PATCH 0/5] KVM paravirt_ops implementation

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

Hm, you need to quiesce the kernel in some way when you do a migrate, 
so making sure it isn't in a hypercall would be just part of that.  In 
general you'd make sure all but one CPU is parked somewhere, and the 
remaining CPU is doing the suspend, right?

The tricky part for Xen in all this is how to make sure all mfn 
references are visible to the hypervisor/toolstack so they can be 
remapped; hypercall page contents are not a concern by comparison.

You only need to quiesce if you have guest-visible data-structures that 
have details about the underlying hardware.  So Xen needs to quiesce, 
but I don't know of any other VMM that would.

VMI, KVM and lhype should be capable of transparent migration without 
guest involvement.

Zach

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