alt Hacker NewsAnd GPU buffers? And in-flight network requests? And notification handling? And D-Bus presence? And watchdogs? And other held resources like pids and fds?
And GPU buffers? And in-flight network requests? And notification handling? And D-Bus presence? And watchdogs? And other held resources like pids and fds?
If you want to checkpoint/resume applications arbitrarily, as AOSP does, you have to virtualize all of those resources anyway. Check out the CRIU patchset (since merged to mainline) which can even resume applications seamlessly across hosts, without any VM being involved.