Application checkpoint/restart (c/r) is the ability to save the stateof a running application so that it can later resume its executionfrom the time at which it was checkpointed, on the same or a differentmachine.
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Project Info
- Kernel code: (browse the code) git://www.linux-cr.org/pub/git/linux-cr.git
- User-space code (browse the code) git://www.linux-cr.org/pub/git/user-cr.git
- User-space test suite (browse the code) git://www.linux-cr.org/pub/git/test-cr.git
- Mailing List: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
- IRC channel: look for #lxcontainers hosted on irc.freenode.net
- Google Summer of Code ideas
Project Status
Updates
- 1-May-2010: Version 21 is
posted to LKML. Lots of code re-org and some cleanups. - 25-Feb-2010:
LWN covers checkpoint-restart in the Kernel Page after version 19 is
posted to LKML. - 15-Feb-2010: Serge Hallyn reports successful checkpoint-restart of a VNC server running TWM and xeyes !
- 7-Oct-2009: Checkpoint-Restart was presented at the
Linux Plumbers Conference. Prior to that we also had a BoF.
Notes from these are now available.
In the NEWS
- Nov 2, 2010: Linux-CR push towards mainline (presentation slides) at 2010 Linux Kernel Summit: see
LWN report - Jul 14, 2010: A full
technical paper on Linux-CR (presentation slides) published in the
Linux Symposium 2010 - Feb 24, 2010: ... One year later LWN re-examines the state of affairs again (LWN article)
- Feb 25, 2009: Attempt to head to mainline gets Linux-CR into LWN again (LWN article)
- Aug 11, 2008: Linux-CR gets first exposure in LWN (LWN article)