Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] replay: save/load initial state

[Pavel Dovgalyuk]

> From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:address@hidden
> 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?

Do you mean when rrsnapshot is used with raw images?
I'll update the docs.

Pavel Dovgalyuk