Xen command "xm save" does not finish

[R P Herrold]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Lord of Gore wrote:

> where are you saving the snapshot? do you have enough space? are you
> sure it doesn't finish maybe it is still working?
> do a
>
> watch 'ls -l <path_to_snapshot>'
>
> and see if the dump has stoped. If it stopped we'll go from there :)

Why not post a watch with inotify, and  block til it is done, 
rather than waste process polling and also repeatedly doing 
maths by inspection?

-- Russ herrold