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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG
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On 03/12/2012 08:11 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The current screendump command can only save to disk very large PPM files.
>
> The following patches add support for screendump in a UNIX socket, following the syntax used for migration URI: "unix:/path/to/socket".

Why not just return the screendump through QMP?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori