Create a diff (incremental) snapshot of a Firecracker microVM using dirty-page tracking

domain: firecracker-microvm.github.io · 4 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps

  1. Enable dirty page tracking at boot time: PUT /machine-config with track_dirty_pages=true (this makes Firecracker use KVM dirty-page logging).
  2. Pause the microVM: PUT /vm with body {"state":"Paused"} — snapshots can only be created from the Paused state.
  3. Create the diff snapshot: PUT /snapshot/create with body {"mem_file_path":"<mem>","snapshot_path":"<state>","snapshot_type":"Diff"}.
  4. Diff snapshots record only pages dirtied since the previous snapshot, making repeated checkpoints far cheaper than Full snapshots.

Known gotchas

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