From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RxMki-00071X-MR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:05:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RxMke-0000Vj-JM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:05:20 -0500 Received: from goliath.siemens.de ([192.35.17.28]:18946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RxMke-0000Vb-4m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:05:16 -0500 Message-ID: <4F3AA24E.5070201@siemens.com> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:05:02 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4F333AAA.1070601@cn.fujitsu.com> <4F333D77.8040104@cn.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <4F333D77.8040104@cn.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 10/16 v6] run dump at the background List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Wen Congyang Cc: Eric Blake , HATAYAMA Daisuke , Dave Anderson , qemu-devel , Luiz Capitulino On 2012-02-09 04:28, Wen Congyang wrote: > The new monitor command dump may take long time to finish. So we need run it > at the background. How does it work? Like live migration, i.e. you retransmit (overwrite) already written but then dirtied pages? Hmm... no. What does background mean then? What is the use case? What if the user decides to resume the vm? Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux