From f02fb9ed43d48243461b567640a6fe855e2d47d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Emelyanov Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:42:08 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README file so that it looks more informative on github front page Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov --- README | 21 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 281d4ecea..e7c87048b 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,15 +1,16 @@ criu ==== -An utility to checkpoint/restore tasks. +An utility to checkpoint/restore tasks. Using this tool, you can +freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it to +a hard drive as a collection of files. You can then use the files +to restore and run the application from the point it was frozen +at. The distinctive feature of the CRIU project is that it is +mainly implemented in user space. -Some code snippets are borrowed from +The project home is at http://criu.org - - Linux kernel (http://kernel.org/) - - git (http://git-scm.com/) - - kvm-tools (https://github.com/penberg/linux-kvm) - - ptrace-parasite (https://code.google.com/p/ptrace-parasite/) - -Many thanks to these projects. - -Licensed under GPLv2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt) +Pages worth starting with are +* Kernel configuration, compilation, etc: http://criu.org/Installation +* A simple example of usage: http://criu.org/Simple_loop +* More sophisticated example with graphical app: http://criu.org/VNC