Re: Using loadvm with snapshot

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 at 17:27, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
<dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> * Gabriel Southern (gsouther@qti.qualcomm.com) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Are there plans to support using -loadvm with -snapshot?
> >
> > I saw some past discussion on mailing list including bug that was closed 
> > earlier this year but no recent activity:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/162424905685.11837.7303570061857383641.malone@loganberry.canonical.com/
> >
> > Testing with latest qemu it looks like -loadvm still does not work when 
> > combined with -snapshot.
> >
> > I'm curious how complex it would be to implement this feature and if it may 
> > show up on QEMU roadmap in the future. Or if there is alterative command 
> > that can be used to save the state of a running VM and then use the same 
> > qcow to run multiple QEMU instances loading this VM state running in 
> > snapshot mode.

Do you know why -loadvm and -snapshot don't work together?
It doesn't on the face of it seem like they would be incompatible...

-- PMM