Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding Save States menu items

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/10/2016 17:48, Programmingkid wrote:
> 
> On Oct 6, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
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>> On 06/10/2016 16:42, Programmingkid wrote:
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>>> On Oct 6, 2016, at 10:28 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
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>>>> On 6 October 2016 at 15:22, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> Would you accept a patch that added "Save State" and
>>>>> "Restore State" menu items to the cocoa interface? They would
>>>>> allow the user to save the running state of the emulator.
>>>>
>>>> If you can get consensus on first adding those to one of the other
>>>> UI frontends that's better maintained than the cocoa UI,
>>>> then I would accept a cocoa UI patch that added them second.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, I will ask around.
>>>
>>> Does anyone else like the idea of having a "Save State" and
>>> "Restore State" menu items added to QEMU's gui?
>>
>> What would they do exactly?
> 
> "Save State" would save the current running state of the emulator to
> file. "Restore State" would restore the saved running state. This
> feature is really good for cheating at video games and saving your
> work exactly as you left it.

Yes, but what would they do in QEMU terms?  What would they call, when
would they be available, and how would the GUI behave?

Paolo