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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/10/2016 18:04, Programmingkid wrote:
> 'Save State...' would call something equivalent to the monitor command savevm.
> It would display a dialog box asking to give a name to this save. The default
> name would probably be "save state mm-dd-yyyy - n". The m,d,y stand
> for month, day, and year respectively. The n would be the save state
> count for that day.
>  
> 'Restore state...' would probably display a dialog box with all the save
> states displayed in a list. The user could select one of them and
> QEMU would restore that state.

These are of course savevm and loadvm.

> 'Manage Save States...' would display a dialog box with all the saves
> states displayed in a list. There would be buttons on the bottom called 
> "Delete", "Rename",
> and "Duplicate". They would give the user the options that can
> be done to each save state. The Delete button would correspond to
> the monitor command delvm "name". Rename and Duplicate would have to
> be researched a little more before I can say how they would be implemented.

I think Delete is enough.

> Code in the gui would detect if the hard drive image was in a format that
> supported save states. The menu items would probably be grayed out if
> save states could not work with the current HD image file. 

Ok, this makes sense.  Thanks for explaining it!  I think this would be
nice to have in the GTK+ interface.

Paolo