Welcome to CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux in userspace.

Download Tarball: criu-4.0.tar.gz Version: 4.0 "CRIUDA" Released: 20 Sep 2024 GIT tag: v4.0 Installation • Usage Releases

CRIU is a sub-project of OpenVZ Linux Containers.

Latest version

Tarball:	criu-4.0.tar.gz
Version:	4.0 "CRIUDA"
Released:	20 Sep 2024
GIT tag:	v4.0

New features

• Shadow stack support
• CUDA plugin: Introduced a plugin to support checkpointing and restoring NVIDIA CUDA applications.

Bugfixes

• cgroup: Add support for restoring a thread in a correct v1 cgroup
• mem: fix some VMAs being incorrectly mapped wtih PROT_WRITE
• criu: fix a fatal failure if nft doesn't work
• net: Fix TOCTOU race condition in unix_conf_op
• pagemap-cache: handle short reads
• Fixes here and there.

Improvements

• Pagemap cache: Added support for PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
• zdtm: Added tests for IP_TTL restore
• irmap: hardcode some more interesting paths
• util: use close_range when it's supported
• Fixes and improvements in amdgpu-plugin

Old versions

3.x

The following 3.x releases were made:

• 3.17 "Radiant Redstart"
• 3.16 "Petrified Puffin"
• 3.15 "Titanium Falcon"
• 3.14 "Platinum Peacock"
• 3.13 "Silicon Willet"
• 3.12 "Ice Penguin"
• 3.11 "Glass Flamingo"
• 3.10 "Granite Eagle"
• 3.9 "Sand Martin"
• 3.8.1 "Snow Bunting"
• 3.8 "Snow Bunting"
• 3.7 "Vinyl Magpie"
• 3.6 "Alabaster Finch"
• 3.5 "Clay Jay"
• 3.4 "Cobalt Swan"
• 3.3 "Crystal Pelican"
• 3.2.1
• 3.2 "Tin Hoopoe"
• 3.1 "Graphene Swift"
• 3.0 "Basalt Wagtail"

2.x

The following 2.x releases were made:

• 2.12.1
• 2.12 "Vulcanite Rook"
• 2.11.1
• 2.11 "Acrylic Bullfinch"
• 2.10 "Brass Waxwing"
• 2.9 "Silk Tit"
• 2.8 "Bronze Siskin"
• 2.7 "Rubber Owl"
• 2.6 "Paper Crane"
• 2.5 "Concrete Oriole"
• 2.4 "Marble Lark"
• 2.3 "Wooden Duck"
• 2.2 "Carbon Nightingale"
• 2.1 "Steel Lapwing"
• 2.0

1.x

The following 1.x releases were made:

• 1.8
• 1.7.2
• 1.7
• 1.6.1
• 1.6
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.1
• 1.5
• 1.4
• 1.3.1
• 1.3
• 1.3-rc2
• 1.3-rc1
• 1.2
• 1.1
• 1.1-rc2
• 1.1-rc1
• 1.0

0.x

The following 0.x releases were made:

• 0.8
• 0.7
• 0.6
• 0.5
• 0.4
• 0.3
• 0.2
• 0.1

See also

• Changelogs to see all the changelogs on a single page.

Using

CR tools

Main checkpoint/restore utility description (sort of HOWTO)

Usage scenarios

Ideas how crtools can be used (some are crazy indeed)

What software is supported

Describes TODO list in higher level terms

LXC

How to dump and restore an LXC container

Developing

If you're interested in CRIU development, subscribe to the criu mailing list: https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/criu

Images

Description of image files format

Commits

Mainline kernel commits tracker

ZDTM Test Suite

Zero downtime test suite

TODO

Current TODO list

Under the hood

• Sockets
• Memory dumping and restoring
• Checkpoint/Restore
• TCP connection
• Porting crtools to new kernel releases
• Files

External links

• 2024-11-14, On-demand and Parallel Checkpoint/Restore for GPU Applications
• 2024-09-06, Live Migration of Multi-Container Kubernetes Pods in Multi-Cluster Serverless Edge Systems
• 2024-09-04, Towards Efficient End-to-End Encryption for Container Checkpointing Systems
• 2024-08-04, Custom Page Fault Handling With eBPF
• 2024-08-03, Software-based Live Migration for Containerized RDMA
• 2024-07-30, Packet Buffering to Minimize Service Downtime and Packet Loss During Redundancy Switchover
• 2024-07-30, Don't, Stop, Drop, Pause: Forensics of CONtainer CheckPOINTs (ConPoint)
• 2024-07-25, MDB-KCP: persistence framework of in-memory database with CRIU-based container checkpoint in Kubernetes
• 2024-07-23, Dapper: A Lightweight and Extensible Framework for Live Program State Rewriting

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