Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 06/10] replay: fix save/load vm for non-empty queue

[Juan Quintela]

Pavel Dovgalyuk <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Pavel Dovgalyuk <address@hidden>
>
> This patch does not allows saving/loading vmstate when
> replay events queue is not empty. There is no reliable
> way to save events queue, because it describes internal
> coroutine state. Therefore saving and loading operations
> should be deferred to another record/replay step.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <address@hidden>

This functions have changed, see last series (but change is trivial from
monitor_printf to error_<something>)

> @@ -2083,6 +2084,12 @@ int save_vmstate(Monitor *mon, const char *name)
>      Error *local_err = NULL;
>      AioContext *aio_context;
>  
> +    if (!replay_can_snapshot()) {
> +        monitor_printf(mon, "Record/replay does not allow making snapshot 
> right now. "
> +                        "Try stopping at another step.\n");
> +        return ret;
> +    }
> +

To issue a savevm/loadvm the user don't have to stop qemu, so I think we
can improve the message to something les in both places?

"Try saving/loading later"?

Thanks, Juan.