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author | Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com> | 2015-08-28 09:58:54 +0800 |
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committer | Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com> | 2015-09-01 12:44:00 +0800 |
commit | e44e3482bdb4d0ebde2d8b41830ac2cdb07948fb (patch) | |
tree | 66b09f592c55df2878107a468a91d21506104d3f /qemu/docs/xen-save-devices-state.txt | |
parent | 9ca8dbcc65cfc63d6f5ef3312a33184e1d726e00 (diff) |
Add qemu 2.4.0
Change-Id: Ic99cbad4b61f8b127b7dc74d04576c0bcbaaf4f5
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>
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diff --git a/qemu/docs/xen-save-devices-state.txt b/qemu/docs/xen-save-devices-state.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..92e08dbf6 --- /dev/null +++ b/qemu/docs/xen-save-devices-state.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ += Save Devices = + +QEMU has code to load/save the state of the guest that it is running. +These are two complementary operations. Saving the state just does +that, saves the state for each device that the guest is running. + +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 "xen-save-devices-state" (see +QMP/qmp-commands.txt) + + +The binary format used in the file is the following: + + +------------------------------------------- + +32 bit big endian: QEMU_VM_FILE_MAGIC +32 bit big endian: QEMU_VM_FILE_VERSION + +for_each_device +{ + 8 bit: QEMU_VM_SECTION_FULL + 32 bit big endian: section_id + 8 bit: idstr (ID string) length + string: idstr (ID string) + 32 bit big endian: instance_id + 32 bit big endian: version_id + buffer: device specific data +} + +8 bit: QEMU_VM_EOF |