[Vm-dev] faster snapshot support in VM?

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Jul 17 00:36:15 UTC 2009


Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> Apart being dependent on another feature of the OS, do you know any
> reason why this would not work?

Well, there is the small matter that fork() doesn't exist on Windows. 
And no equivalent functionality either. Cygwin might emulate this but I 
have severe doubts as to whether this would work reliably in non-trivial 
cases (i.e., threads using sockets etc) and I can almost guarantee that 
it's going to be very, very slow if it worked at all.

Cheers,
   - Andreas


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