Take incremental (diff) Firecracker snapshots and rebase them onto a base
domain: firecracker-microvm.github.io · 5 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
Enable dirty page tracking at machine-config time: curl --unix-socket /tmp/firecracker.socket -X PUT http://localhost/machine-config -d '{"vcpu_count":2,"mem_size_mib":1024,"smt":false,"track_dirty_pages":true}'
Pause the VM and create a base full snapshot: PUT /snapshot/create {"snapshot_type":"Full","snapshot_path":"...","mem_file_path":"..."}
Resume, run, and for each checkpoint pause then PUT /snapshot/create {"snapshot_type":"Diff","snapshot_path":"...","mem_file_path":"..."} to write only pages dirtied since the last snapshot into a sparse file
Merge a diff layer onto the base in creation order with the snapshot-editor tool: snapshot-editor edit-memory rebase --memory-path path/to/base --diff-path path/to/layer
Repeat the rebase for each later layer so the base ends up describing the desired memory state, then use the state file from the same call as the last-merged memory layer
Known gotchas
Diff snapshots are still in developer preview; merge layers in the SAME order they were created
If track_dirty_pages is not enabled, Firecracker falls back to mincore(2), which only works with swap DISABLED and can produce larger (still sparse) files
track_dirty_pages is NOT persisted in the snapshot — set it again in /snapshot/load to keep doing dirty-page-tracking diffs from a restored VM
Dirty page tracking negates most huge-pages benefits
Do NOT merge the state files, only the memory files; use the state file from the same call as the memory layer merged last
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