On 03/20/14 22:18, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > On 20/03/14 21:56, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 03/20/14 21:38, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>> Qiao Nuohan, >>> >>> is there a reason why you did not implemented the HMP part for that format >>> of kdump compressed format? After all this is a patch mostly for developers, >>> so a HMP interface might come handy. Do you already have some patch in >>> preparation or know somebody doing it? >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/249283/focus=250059 >> >> Laszlo >> > So in essence: Due to the limitations of the command line parser we cannot > add the format to the hmp command line. > So something like adding > > dump_guest_memory_set_format <format> > > would be the only possible solution with the hmp code as is. Correct?
Yes, one possibility would be to make the dump command stateful (= compression format), and to add a new command setting/getting that state. Another option would be to leave the current command intact, and add an independent command that wouldn't take "begin", "end", nor "paging", but would take compression format. > (If adding such a command is nice or not is another question) Yep. Thanks Laszlo
