[Qemu-devel] Re: The State of the SaveVM format

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:47:27AM +0200, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Notice that there are plans for VMState to do more interesting things
> like:
> - Be able to show the values in a saved image
> - See if a VM is able to load a vmstate (i.e. it has the needed devices
>   at the needed versions)
> - .....
> 
> That ones are independent of what we decided for the previous problems.
> 
> Comments?  Things that I missed for the discussion?
> 
> Later, Juan.

Another idea was to switch to some standard format, like qdev machine
description format or xml, so we don't have to maintain our own.

All state besides the physical memory dump is normally very
small, so this won't have much overhead.

This is possible if we give up on backwards compatibility completely.

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MST