[CRIU] about checkpointing lxc container

[Xinyang Ge]

> This is something we call "external resource" -- an object, that links
> container with the outer world (typically with the host). By default CRIU
> should only dump containers without such things, but sometimes we have to
> manually specify exceptions to that rule.
>
> The terminal you're having problem with is such -- we should somehow explain
> to CRIU, that this terminal is "external" to make CRIU dump only one half
> of it and on restore get one from lxc container setup machinery.

OK. Looks like this is specific to the linux container. And it's
difficult to handle such cases in a general way :(

By the way, is there any way to let the CRIU tolerate some undumpable resources?

> Hope this explanation helps :)

Yes, it does!! Thank you so much!

Xinyang

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Xinyang GE
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Homepage: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~xxg113/