From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: The State of the SaveVM format
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:01:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090909090121.GB18061@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hbvcijxc.fsf@neno.mitica>
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:47:27AM +0200, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Notice that there are plans for VMState to do more interesting things
> like:
> - Be able to show the values in a saved image
> - See if a VM is able to load a vmstate (i.e. it has the needed devices
> at the needed versions)
> - .....
>
> That ones are independent of what we decided for the previous problems.
>
> Comments? Things that I missed for the discussion?
>
> Later, Juan.
Another idea was to switch to some standard format, like qdev machine
description format or xml, so we don't have to maintain our own.
All state besides the physical memory dump is normally very
small, so this won't have much overhead.
This is possible if we give up on backwards compatibility completely.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-09 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-09 8:47 [Qemu-devel] The State of the SaveVM format Juan Quintela
2009-09-09 8:54 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-09 9:22 ` Juan Quintela
2009-09-09 9:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-09 9:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-09-09 9:26 ` Juan Quintela
2009-09-09 12:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-09 14:33 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-09 14:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-09 14:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2009-09-09 14:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-09 15:22 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-09 15:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-09 15:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-10 1:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-09-10 1:26 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-09-10 2:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-10 12:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-10 12:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2009-09-10 13:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-10 13:26 ` Juan Quintela
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