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On 06/29/2009 12:44 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> I think it would be a good idea to allow binary as
> Content-Transfer-Encoding, since base64 is very inefficient for
> transferring large amount of data.
> For example we may want to save the state of the guest, including the
> whole memory, and transfer it over the network without saving it to file
> first.
>    

The migrate command does that.  Give it an fd and migrate away.

Mixing binary in the data format seems a bad idea to me, especially if 
we stick to json as our encoding.

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