Zachary Amsden wrote:
> 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. 

Sure; Xen makes the explicit design decision that suspend/resume/migrate 
are things that the guest is likely to want to have some involvement in 
if its already doing all the paravirt games.  A 
semi-kinda-paravirtualized hvm Xen guest doesn't have to worry too much 
about those kinds of things.

    J

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