But in a server context, why would you want this?
- Garrett
> On Jul 24, 2015, at 5:27 AM, Nahum Shalman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 07/23/2015 11:33 PM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote:
>> On 23 July 2015 at 19:59, Simon Davis via smartos-discuss
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> From my Googling it doesn't seem like it's possible to suspend a KVM zone.
>>> Will this functionality be added to SmartOS?
>> I don't believe we have support for suspending a KVM guest, and it's
>> certainly not something that there seems to be much call for. What
>> problem are you trying to solve?
>
> If your guest OS has a hibernation feature (where it dumps DRAM state to swap
> and knows how to read it back in on boot), you could conceivably configure it
> to do hibernation when it receives the ACPI shutdown signal. It's not as
> elegant as having the hypervisor do it for arbitrary guest configurations,
> but it might solve your problem...
>
> Windows definitely has that, and I'm pretty sure various Linux distributions
> can do it these days too.
>
> -Nahum
>
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