From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44515) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmjca-0005AP-Da for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:39:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmjcW-0004ex-7g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:39:39 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51334) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmjcW-0004ei-1A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:39:36 -0400 References: <20160921113303.1420.63544.stgit@PASHA-ISP.def.inno> <20160921113315.1420.49751.stgit@PASHA-ISP.def.inno> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <5d38dfa7-8a5f-a324-ad22-cdd56d288697@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 17:39:31 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160921113315.1420.49751.stgit@PASHA-ISP.def.inno> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] replay: save/load initial state List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Pavel Dovgalyuk , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, jasowang@redhat.com, quintela@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com On 21/09/2016 13:33, Pavel Dovgalyuk wrote: > +New VM snapshots may be created in replay mode. They can be used later > +to recover the desired VM state. All VM states created in replay mode > +are associated with the moment of time in the replay scenario. > +After recovering the VM state replay will start from that position. > + > +Default starting snapshot name may be specified with icount field > +rrsnapshot as follows: > + -icount shift=7,rr=record,rrfile=replay.bin,rrsnapshot=snapshot_name > + > +This snapshot is created at start of recording and restored at start > +of replaying. It also can be loaded while replaying to roll back > +the execution. Should you mention somewhere that you need -snapshot for raw images? Paolo