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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, quintela@redhat.com

On 10/11/2011 09:54 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 10/11/2011 08:27 AM, Juan Quintela wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about it this morning.  I think it's solvable.  We 
> need to be able to save off the qdev construction properties right 
> before init.  This is just a matter of storing a list of strings.  
> Then we need a qdev_torture function that will save the device state 
> (will require a dummy QEMUFile that saves to memory).  We then need to 
> invoke destruction w/o actually freeing the memory of the device.  We 
> should then zero out the device memory.
>
> We then need to run through qdev creation, setting properties based on 
> the saved construction properties.  Then we should init and invoke the 
> device's reset function.  Finally we can pass the dummy QEMUFile to 
> the device's load function (or vmstate).
If you want, I have a 'dummy QEMUFile' implementation...

    Stefan