From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DFuDj-0008PW-BE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:23:55 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DFuDV-0008H7-0e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:23:42 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFuDU-0008EZ-B5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:23:40 -0500 Received: from [65.74.133.9] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DFtuY-0001VN-Rp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:04:07 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [patch] Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggestion - trap window-close of VM Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:04:01 +0100 References: <4247EBB0.6090409@praguespringpeople.org> <9fdf1714f679008d8a524bade67f5492@sci.fi> In-Reply-To: <9fdf1714f679008d8a524bade67f5492@sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503281404.01846.paul@codesourcery.com> 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 On Monday 28 March 2005 13:51, Asko Kauppi wrote: > Would it be too hard to implement a proper "state save" such as in > Virtual PC and others? In my experience, that single feature is the > most important of any emulation system; ability to work for a while, > then suspend the whole system for days, weeks, or years, and catching > up where you last left it. > > Is there some practical reason why QEmu should not offer this? It already does. See the savevm and loadvm monitor commands. Paul