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Re: [Xen-devel] Live Migration Across AMD and Intel

To: Igor Chubin <igor@xxxxxxx>, James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Live Migration Across AMD and Intel
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:32:46 +0000
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On 2/12/08 10:07, "Igor Chubin" <igor@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>> This appeared on slashdot a while ago...
>> http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/11/07/1535235.shtml. I'm not sure
>> that their source is that reputable though. If you were emulating a 486
>> it might work :)
> 
> Thank you Keir and James,
> 
> I know about this posting on slashdot.
> Also here is related video [1] with a small presentation.
> 
> They claim there that live migration across AMD and Intel
> works on KVM. As far as I understand now it works in
> some particular (and rare) situations but it is not true in general.

Yeah, it can definitely work in a range of cases. It's definitely demo-able.
But claiming it works in general in production environments is something
else!

 -- Keir



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