* Gabriel Southern (gsout...@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.mal...@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.
One thing that might work for you is migrate to a file; (qemu) migrate_set_parameter max-bandwidth 100G (qemu) migrate "exec:cat > myfile.mig" (qemu) q qemu -incoming "exec:cat myfile.mig" Dave > > Thanks, > > -Gabriel > -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
