From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LZLhB-0004NZ-OG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:52:49 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LZLh7-0004N7-Lc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:52:48 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34501 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LZLh7-0004Mt-GB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:52:45 -0500 Received: from pelvoux.gotadsl.co.uk ([81.6.248.91]:36044) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LZLh7-0006Dw-2U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:52:45 -0500 Received: from fozzy by ecrins.fosdick.home.net with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LZLig-0002Ru-D5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:54:22 +0000 From: Steve Fosdick Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:54:21 +0000 Message-Id: <1234860861.18080.35.camel@ecrins.fosdick.home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: [Qemu-devel] Screen dump on shutdown? Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org How hard would it be to implement a feature where a screendump is taken to a predetermined file immediately before the virtual machine is powered off or rebooted? The application I have in mind for this is when the guest fails to boot correctly. It would be useful if there was a screendump at the point the guest attempts an automatic reboot in order to gather at least some information about what went wrong. Regards, Steve.