[vbox-dev] Saved memory loading in Snapshot impl

Klaus Espenlaub klaus.espenlaub at oracle.com
Mon Aug 28 10:57:14 GMT 2017


On 24.08.2017 20:32, Huihong Luo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if any of you can shed some lights on vbox snapshot impl. In particular, when saved vm memory is loaded, does it get all loaded at once? or the memory is loaded on demand as guest code execute?

Saved state is completely loaded before the VM starts executing. For 
typical VMs (which actually need their memory) there's not much to gain 
by demand loading.

Klaus

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Huihong



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