Re: [Qemu-devel] loadvm someone?

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does anybody else than me use the loadvm command?
> 
> I run into a few problems:
> 	- a saved KNOPPIX state gives an error, when loaded first,
> 	  if I load a second time, it works
> 	- a saved Windows state does not start any longer
> 
> My suspicion is that some "hardware" state is not saved, and so those
> virtual devices are not reinitialized correctly. However, when I load the
> state a 2nd time, they have been initialized somehow.
> 
> Anyone has an idea where to fix it?

The save/load VM feature is not finished because not all devices save 
their state (it should be easy to finish). There are also some problems 
if you load a VM on a computer with a different clock speed from the one 
on which it was saved. Moreover, no backward compatibility between the 
saved state file format is currently maintainted.

Fabrice.