Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] virtio: s4 support

[Gleb Natapov]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 05:54:29PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed,  7 Dec 2011 01:18:38 +0530, Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > These patches add support for S4 to virtio (pci) and all drivers.
> 
> Dumb meta-question: why do we want to hibernate virtual machines?
> 
For instance you want to hibernate your laptop while it is running a virtual
machine. You can pause them of course, but then time will be incorrect
inside a guest after resume.

> I figure there's a reason, but it seems a bit weird :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Rusty.
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