3 files changed, 21 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/libpod/container_api.go b/libpod/container_api.go
index 9f5436b14..df6b6e962 100644
--- a/libpod/container_api.go
+++ b/libpod/container_api.go
@@ -833,7 +833,8 @@ func (c *Container) Refresh(ctx context.Context) error {
 // ContainerCheckpointOptions is a struct used to pass the parameters
 // for checkpointing to corresponding functions
 type ContainerCheckpointOptions struct {
-	Keep bool
+	Keep        bool
+	KeepRunning bool
 }
 
 // Checkpoint checkpoints a container
diff --git a/libpod/container_internal_linux.go b/libpod/container_internal_linux.go
index 003e8284a..e6071945d 100644
--- a/libpod/container_internal_linux.go
+++ b/libpod/container_internal_linux.go
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ func (c *Container) checkpoint(ctx context.Context, options ContainerCheckpointO
 	if c.state.State != ContainerStateRunning {
 		return errors.Wrapf(ErrCtrStateInvalid, "%q is not running, cannot checkpoint", c.state.State)
 	}
-	if err := c.runtime.ociRuntime.checkpointContainer(c); err != nil {
+	if err := c.runtime.ociRuntime.checkpointContainer(c, options); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
@@ -457,11 +457,13 @@ func (c *Container) checkpoint(ctx context.Context, options ContainerCheckpointO
 
 	logrus.Debugf("Checkpointed container %s", c.ID())
 
-	c.state.State = ContainerStateStopped
+	if !options.KeepRunning {
+		c.state.State = ContainerStateStopped
 
-	// Cleanup Storage and Network
-	if err := c.cleanup(ctx); err != nil {
-		return err
+		// Cleanup Storage and Network
+		if err := c.cleanup(ctx); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
 	}
 
 	if !options.Keep {
diff --git a/libpod/oci.go b/libpod/oci.go
index 71da830b5..8ee2c948f 100644
--- a/libpod/oci.go
+++ b/libpod/oci.go
@@ -844,13 +844,22 @@ func (r *OCIRuntime) execStopContainer(ctr *Container, timeout uint) error {
 }
 
 // checkpointContainer checkpoints the given container
-func (r *OCIRuntime) checkpointContainer(ctr *Container) error {
+func (r *OCIRuntime) checkpointContainer(ctr *Container, options ContainerCheckpointOptions) error {
 	// imagePath is used by CRIU to store the actual checkpoint files
 	imagePath := ctr.CheckpointPath()
 	// workPath will be used to store dump.log and stats-dump
 	workPath := ctr.bundlePath()
 	logrus.Debugf("Writing checkpoint to %s", imagePath)
 	logrus.Debugf("Writing checkpoint logs to %s", workPath)
-	return utils.ExecCmdWithStdStreams(os.Stdin, os.Stdout, os.Stderr, nil, r.path, "checkpoint",
-		"--image-path", imagePath, "--work-path", workPath, ctr.ID())
+	args := []string{}
+	args = append(args, "checkpoint")
+	args = append(args, "--image-path")
+	args = append(args, imagePath)
+	args = append(args, "--work-path")
+	args = append(args, workPath)
+	if options.KeepRunning {
+		args = append(args, "--leave-running")
+	}
+	args = append(args, ctr.ID())
+	return utils.ExecCmdWithStdStreams(os.Stdin, os.Stdout, os.Stderr, nil, r.path, args...)
 }