Live-Updating Xen

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Live-Updating Xen

Current State

  • kexec work merged for v2.0.20
  • PV domU serialization work ongoing

TODO

This list will move to the JIRA instance

  • Devel milestone: PV domU persists across domain destroy/create
  • Dom0 persists across kexec
  • HVM guests persist across kexec
  • PV guests persist across kexec
  • One guest persists across kexec
  • Multiple guests persist across kexec
  • Guests exercise workloads
  • Update to same Xen binary as the Target Xen
  • Update to a Xen binary with a minor change, like a new printk
  • Update to a Xen binary with a fix for an XSA
  • Update to a new minor version
  • Update to a new major version

More information

  • Slides from Xen Summit 2019
  • Video recording of the Xen Summit 2019 talk