[CRIU] Question

Thouraya TH thouraya87 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 09:32:18 PDT 2014


Thanks a lot for your answer.
Please i need just one another indication.

What I need to restart an application, for example, just the image
generated by criu?

Thanks a lot.
Best Regards.


2014-04-04 6:38 GMT+01:00 Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at parallels.com>:

> On 04/04/2014 12:57 AM, Thouraya TH wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for your answer :)
> > OK, i will see http://criu.org/
> > i have some questions please:
> > - i'd like to know the format of a checkpoint with criu, is it a file
> (if it's the case, i'd like to know its extension) or a directory
>
> The criu dump is a directory with a set of files. We describe the format
> here
> http://criu.org/Images
>
> It's a little bit outdated, but mostly correct.
>
> > - The snapshot is it portable ? i mean can i restart it on any other
> plaform ?
>
> Mm... Yes and no. You can restart on another machine provided it's the
> same architecture. IOW x8664 -> ARM is not possible (yet?), but from
> one x8664 to another, even with different CPU, is possible.
>
> > - The size of the result file or directory ?
>
> It heavily depends on the size of the application(s) you dump.
>
> Thanks,
> Pavel
>
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