From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45289) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8ZdD-0004WV-Mf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:04:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8Zd8-0003D1-OC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:03:55 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:43329) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8Zd8-0003Cn-Gk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:03:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4F63645F.8070308@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:03:43 -0600 From: Eric Blake MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1331899989-7756-2-git-send-email-stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> <4F636123.5010901@redhat.com> <4F636339.3090101@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4F636339.3090101@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig28174678BAD44D88024E8022" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 2/6] Introduce "save-devices-state" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Stefano Stabellini , jan.kiszka@siemens.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino , avi@redhat.com This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig28174678BAD44D88024E8022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/16/2012 09:58 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> +These operations are normally used with migration (see migration.txt= ), >>> +however it is also possible to save the state of all devices to file= , >>> +without saving the RAM or the block devices of the VM. >>> + >>> +This operation is called "save-devices-state" (see >>> QMP/qmp-commands.txt) >> >> Is there a complimentary load-devices-state? >=20 > Maybe we should call this xen-save-devices-state. >=20 > As far as I'm concerned, this is a Xen specific interface, not an > interface for general consumption. Fair enough - and renaming it would certainly help. >=20 > I would not expect libvirt to use this interface. Good to know. In that case, adding an fd: interface isn't a priority, after all. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig28174678BAD44D88024E8022 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJPY2RfAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqfH0H/280a0S/lprymRA7WafcV50V 3uot8Wa3LpcOcJSvAUgAINkUuYjsN6ZCRmo0g8BIM7NOXtLGe+inH6dhOe0sdpbW 1/gSZT2WbGYCalV4wLSR9yZjEdR+8cg8R3zUrv4d+VVDgREARh6nSljQR+zIl4CO wwhuYyWMhSaExbWFfG8OtxCYT6Cys/XlcA36/OzZjYo+KZnLbqAxYSVVvLDF6Ctx IUDQsBbuZ1N1s+PLvzwPniOgzAA0Cio1V3hwXUpw/n3gArOUese8rFC1Kn8vycdb 57TuUPahoThwa6z9ZteWBiBMgUjZdvZC3IAbu8tjje+U78PzYBhRpJRp4ftKFOQ= =qhBJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig28174678BAD44D88024E8022--