Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: adding migration to/from a file

[Uri Lublin <uril@redhat.com>]

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Monday 19 January 2009, Uri Lublin wrote:
>> Migration to file, reuses migration-to-fd.
>> Migration from file, uses qemu-fopen directly.
>>
>> The saved state-file should be used only once and removed (or used
>> with -snapshot, or a the disk-image should be copied), as the
>> disk image is not saved, only the VM state.
>>
>> Also there is not point of doing a _live_ migration to file (except
>> for debugging migration code), so I recommend to stop the VM before
>> migrating its state to a file.
>>
>> An advantage migration-to-file over savevm/loadvm is that for the latter
>> a qcow2 is a requirement, while the former works for any image-format.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to just implement savevm to file?
> 
> Paul

It sure is simpler.

The possible advantage of migration-to-file (over savevm-to-file) is that in the 
future we may want to implement vm-snapshoting (live save to file + snapshot 
disk-image).

I've implemented a savevm_file, and will send it in a separate email.

Thanks,
    Uri.