Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU savevm RAM page offsets

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

(apologies for responding to myself)

On 08/13/13 18:51, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 08/13/13 18:03, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 13.08.2013 15:30, schrieb Juerg Haefliger:
>>> I'm writing/extending a little tool (courtesy of Andrew @pikewerks)
>>> that dumps the RAM pages from a savevm file to a raw memory dump file
>>> so that it can be analysed using tools that require a raw dump as
>>> input.
>>
>> Can't you just use QEMU's guest-memory-dump API? Either directly or
>> after loadvm'ing it.
> 
> That used to suffer from the exact same problem Juerg described, but I
> fixed it for 1.6.

... note that the savevm file format doesn't need fixing; it is meant
for internal consumption only (ie. guest RAM saved in ram_addr_t space,
then loaded back into ram_addr_t space). It is not meant for external
tools that expect guest-phys addresses (= hwaddr).

Laszlo