On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 at 17:27, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote: > > * 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.
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
