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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:02 am    Post subject: Can this kind of sync be feasible? [SOLVED] Reply with quote

My idea is to move the whole desktop between my workstation and notebook.
It's like suspend the workstation and restore it on the notebook and vise versa.
Perhaps this idea is a bit crazy, but I think it's ultimately useful.

Example:

on my workstation, there're:
1. a gimp window editing /home/fpemud/a.png, unsaved.
2. a evince window viewing a.pdf and b.pdf
3. a totem window playing http://abc/a.avi
4. on workspace 2, I have a doom3 window, which is paused.

assume the two PC has exactly the same arch,kernel,lib,app,cfg

operation step:
1. I right-click an sync-app-icon on the tray, selects "sync desktop to fpemud-notebook".
2. A Yes/No dialog appears:
Valid sync application:
1. gimp
2. evince
3. totem
Invalid sync application:
1. doom3: no corresponding application on target system
3. I click "yes"
4. Then all the applications except doom3 on fpemud-workstation close
5. on fpemud-notebook opens gimp, evince, totem window and they appears just the same as on workstation except the window size (notebook has a smaller screen resolution)

I think virtual machine live migration can get this effect, but I think it it more like a process-and-context-live-migration.
I wonder, for a program fully based on like glib, is this kind of effect feasible?


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Doable? Yes, this is done with virtualization all the time but requires that either you move the virtual state between the systems or that you have each machine be an exact clone. The problem is that the unsaved images and the processes need to be moved somehow and that is really what virtualization is for.

As a first step perhaps you could look into putting your home directory into svn or on an external disk. I have read of some people doing that. It does not allow you to move unsaved files or open processes (as you note) but it would allow you to keep the saved files in sync.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What you;'re looking for is something called "checkpoint and restatrt" (c/r for short). Some supports exists in Linux, it is being merged in little pieces (like the kcmp syscall, /proc enhancements, a new PTCRL_SET_MM prctl, the F_GETOWNER_UIDS fcntl) both a part of better container support and for its own sake.

The pieces are coming together, there is a CRIU project (a subproject of OpenVZ) if you want to try it out (for best results, use at least Linux 3.5, and enable CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE in your kernel config)
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, it's what i after. i'll go and study it.

i don't expect this idea can be fully realized currently. it feels really good to know there're projects around .

thanks very much.
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