Partition State Streams

The hypervisor saves a partition's state as a stream of data. The format of the stream is not defined and might change between different versions of the hypervisor or different platforms that a single hypervisor supports.

Failure to save and restore the complete save state of a partition might result in a partition that functions incorrectly or not at all. In particular, an invalid-state error might (but is not guaranteed to) be generated when a partition's virtual processors are unsuspended.

Changes to the partition or its virtual processors will necessarily change the state. Care should be taken to avoid modifying a partition or its virtual processors in the middle of the save or restore process. Failure to follow this rule might result in a partition that functions incorrectly after restoration.

Summary state is intended solely for testing a partition's save-restore compatibility and cannot be used to affect any partition-specific context.

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Build date: 11/16/2013