Re:Your computer is a distributed system
by zozbot234 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @01:03PM
(#30857897)
Graphical programs could be checkpointed and restored as long as they don't directly connect to the hardware. (Because the checkpoint/restore system has no idea how to grab the hardware's relevant state or replicate it on restore.) This means running those apps in a hardware-independent way (e.g. using a separate Wayland instance that connects to the system one), but aside from that it ought to be usable.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
For CRIU it is not supported: https://criu.org/Integration#Wayland.2FWeston, also in my experience it doesn't work.
Are you talking about an other software?
Re:Your computer is a distributed system
by zozbot234 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @01:43PM
(#30858415)
It has been done "virtually" by going through e.g. VNC https://criu.org/VNC . Alternately, CRIU apps could be required to use virt-* devices, which CRIU might checkpoint and restore similar to VM's.