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Virtual-machine hosting can be a fickle business; once a virtual machine
has been placed on a physical host, there may arise a desire to move it to
a different host. The problem with migrating virtual machines, though, is
that there is a period during which the machine is not running; that can be
disruptive even if it is brief. At the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management and BPF Summit, Dragan Stancevic, presenting
remotely, showed how CXL
shared memory can be used to migrate virtual machines with no offline time.