Re: [Qemu-devel] hmp interface for kdump compressed format

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 20/03/2014 22:28, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
> On 03/20/14 22:18, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> On 20/03/14 21:56, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>> On 03/20/14 21:38, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>> Qiao Nuohan,
>>>>
>>>> is there a reason why you did not implemented the HMP part for that format
>>>> of kdump compressed format? After all this is a patch mostly for developers,
>>>> so a HMP interface might come handy. Do you already have some patch in
>>>> preparation or know somebody doing it?
>>>
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/249283/focus=250059
>>>
>>> Laszlo
>>>
>> So in essence: Due to the limitations of the command line parser we cannot
>> add the format to the hmp command line.
>> So something like adding
>>
>> dump_guest_memory_set_format <format>
>>
>> would be the only possible solution with the hmp code as is. Correct?
>
> Yes, one possibility would be to make the dump command stateful (=
> compression format), and to add a new command setting/getting that state.
>
> Another option would be to leave the current command intact, and add an
> independent command that wouldn't take "begin", "end", nor "paging", but
> would take compression format.

Another possibility is to kill begin/length from the dump-guest-memory 
command.  HMP is not stable, so if that's useful we can do it.

Paolo