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Add the core functions that implement the functionality of the API. Suspend is done by using an asynchronous mechanism so that we can return the status to the caller before the host gets suspended. This asynchronous operation is achieved by suspending the host in a separate thread of execution. However, returning the status to the caller is only best-effort, but not guaranteed. To resume the host, an RTC alarm is set up (based on how long we want to suspend) before suspending the host. When this alarm fires, the host gets woken up. Suspend-to-RAM operation on a host running Linux can take upto more than 20 seconds, depending on the load of the system. (Freezing of tasks, an operation preceding any suspend operation, is given up after a 20 second timeout). And Suspend-to-Disk can take even more time, considering the time required for compaction, creating the memory image and writing it to disk etc. So, we do not allow the user to specify a suspend duration of less than 60 seconds, to be on the safer side, since we don't want to prematurely declare failure when we only had to wait for some more time.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>