Re: [Qemu-devel] Live migration - exec: support to be reintroduced?

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> We used it to implement save-to-file, exec'ing 'dd'. I'd rather prefer
> that we had a more explicit 'migrate to a file' capability rather than
> the hack of execing dd.
>   

(qemu) acceptfd blah
receives an file descriptor from the monitor using SCM_RIGHTS and 
assigns it to the tag 'blah'
(qemu) migrate fd:blah
migrates to the fd denominated by the tag 'blah'
(qemu) closefd blah

You can use literal numbers instead of tags to refer to file descriptors 
inherited from the environment:

(qemu) migrate fd:17

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