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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">thanks for the input!<br>
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On 21/01/2022 12:48, Mohammed Naser wrote:<br>
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Sorry to hijack such an old thread. Looking into these features, I
was just wondering if it was possible to:<br>
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<p> 1) Disable the support for pause / suspend altogether
and not allow anyone to place instances in such states?</p>
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<p>Good point, thanks.</p>
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<p> 2) Change the storage location of the saved guest RAM
to a shared storage to allow the instance to be migrated
while being suspended/paused. As far as I can see
currently this data is saved on the host disk.</p>
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<div dir="auto">you can mount the path where things get saved
at where ever you want (I think it’s somewhere inside
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That's true, but this would require some multi-mountable shared
storage like CephFS or some NFS to remove the dependency from a
single node.<br>
It's not like Nova would store this data as e.g. a RBD image in
Ceph via some config option, right?</p>
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<p>Regards</p>
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<p>Christian<br>
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