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author | fishsoupisgood <github@madingley.org> | 2019-04-29 01:17:54 +0100 |
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committer | fishsoupisgood <github@madingley.org> | 2019-05-27 03:43:43 +0100 |
commit | 3f2546b2ef55b661fd8dd69682b38992225e86f6 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/docs/xen-save-devices-state.txt b/docs/xen-save-devices-state.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..92e08dbf --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/xen-save-devices-state.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ += Save Devices = + +QEMU has code to load/save the state of the guest that it is running. +These are two complementary operations. Saving the state just does +that, saves the state for each device that the guest is running. + +These operations are normally used with migration (see migration.txt), +however it is also possible to save the state of all devices to file, +without saving the RAM or the block devices of the VM. + +This operation is called "xen-save-devices-state" (see +QMP/qmp-commands.txt) + + +The binary format used in the file is the following: + + +------------------------------------------- + +32 bit big endian: QEMU_VM_FILE_MAGIC +32 bit big endian: QEMU_VM_FILE_VERSION + +for_each_device +{ + 8 bit: QEMU_VM_SECTION_FULL + 32 bit big endian: section_id + 8 bit: idstr (ID string) length + string: idstr (ID string) + 32 bit big endian: instance_id + 32 bit big endian: version_id + buffer: device specific data +} + +8 bit: QEMU_VM_EOF |