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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:02:41 +0100
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To: Catalin Vasile <catalinvasile92@gmail.com>
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On 17 April 2015 at 14:54, Catalin Vasile <catalinvasile92@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does loadvm create new virtual devices (dev.init(), dev.realize(), etc.) for
> the vm to run onto and then load VMStateDescription?

loadvm itself does not, no. You have to start QEMU with the
exact same configuration and command line options, which
means the usual startup will create all the devices and
connect them up. Then you can do a loadvm which will read
the state into all the existing devices.

-- PMM