[CRIU] Criu on Raspberry pi 2

[Pavel Emelyanov]

On 04/28/2016 06:49 PM, alex vk wrote:
> Working with a 3.18 Kernel if fine for me for the moment. I'd love to help you on that, but that's definitely out of my competencies :)
> I was just wondering if for example last versions of LXC or p.Haul would work on Pi 2 with a 3.18 Kernel ?

Not sure about LXC (should work), but P.Haul is kernel agnostic. The problem with
p.haul is that it depends on the backend badly and so far we've only developed the
Virtuozzo one.

-- Pavel

> Anyway thanks a lot for your help !
> Alex
> (the kernel 3.18 from raspberry official github is indeed working)
> 
> 2016-04-27 14:15 GMT+02:00 Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at virtuozzo.com <mailto:xemul at virtuozzo.com>>:
> 
>     On 04/27/2016 01:09 PM, alex vk wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > just tried the patch https://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2016-April/027743.html and it works perfectly, thanks a lot for your help :)
>     > (Criu-dev version + patch criu/pie/Makefile, and Kernel 3.18 from https://github.com/avagin/linux-rpi-criu.git.)
>     >
>     > Does that mean that Criu will not be able to work on the Raspberry pi 2 with a kernel upper than 3.18 ?
>     > (as criu will not support vdso dumping for arm ?)
> 
>     Unfortunately we don't have experts in ARM actively hacking on CRIU.
>     Christopher is helping a lot, so is Dmitry (although his main area
>     in CRIU is x86), but still ARM is not maintained as good as x86 is.
>     So whether or not CRIU will support any particular feature on ARM is
>     something we'd love to have more certainty about.
> 
>     -- Pavel
> 
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