From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759859AbYDXSat (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:30:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753420AbYDXSag (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:30:36 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:37087 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758387AbYDXSaf (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:30:35 -0400 Subject: Re: Checkpoint/restart (was Re: [PATCH 0/4] - v2 - Object creation with a specified id) From: Dave Hansen To: Kirill Korotaev Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nadia.Derbey@bull.net, Andrew Morton , nick@nick-andrew.net, Alexey Dobriyan In-Reply-To: <48103002.5090806@parallels.com> References: <20080418054459.891481000@bull.net> <20080422193612.GA15835@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <1208890580.17117.14.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> <20080422210130.GA15937@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <1208904967.17117.51.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> <480ED9D5.1010906@parallels.com> <1208964798.17117.72.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> <48103002.5090806@parallels.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:30:09 -0700 Message-Id: <1209061809.12718.36.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 11:00 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > Yeah... we talked with Andrew yesterday. He mostly agrees with a black > box. > He also said an interesting idea, that if you need compatibility > between the kernels (like we for example, support for migration from > 2.6.9 to 2.6.18 in OpenVZ) > you can do image conversion in user-space... That sounds compelling to me. I'm definitely willing to explore it. Any thoughts on what we should start with? What can we get merged, most easily? -- Dave