Re: [Qemu-devel] Persistent Main Memory in QEmu

2016-04-22 Thread Li, Tianyou
, Tianyou Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert ; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Stefan Hajnoczi Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Persistent Main Memory in QEmu Hi Tianyou, On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Li, Tianyou wrote: > I found the mmap was invoked in qemu with option MAP_ANONYMOUS, which will > zero pages. A

Re: [Qemu-devel] Persistent Main Memory in QEmu

2016-04-22 Thread Li, Tianyou
I found the mmap was invoked in qemu with option MAP_ANONYMOUS, which will zero pages. After a simple workaround right now pc.ram region will keep its content through reboot/shutdown. Thanks Dave and Artyom for the help! Regards, Tianyou -Original Message- From: Li, Tianyou Sent

Re: [Qemu-devel] Persistent Main Memory in QEmu

2016-04-21 Thread Li, Tianyou
e- From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert [mailto:dgilb...@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 6:52 PM To: Li, Tianyou Cc: Artyom Tarasenko ; qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Persistent Main Memory in QEmu * Li, Tianyou (tianyou...@intel.com) wrote: > Hi Artyom, Dave & othe

Re: [Qemu-devel] Persistent Main Memory in QEmu

2016-04-21 Thread Li, Tianyou
y problem or can be my in-correct understanding of qemu feature. Could you please elaborate more details or give me some hints? Thanks. Regards, Tianyou -----Original Message- From: Li, Tianyou Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:53 AM To: Artyom Tarasenko Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject

Re: [Qemu-devel] Persistent Main Memory in QEmu

2016-04-20 Thread Li, Tianyou
o have the functionality in qemu that can save & restore PC main memory at shutdown/power-on phase. Thanks. Regards, Tianyou -Original Message- From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert [mailto:dgilb...@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 4:36 PM To: Li, Tianyou Cc: qemu-devel

Re: [Qemu-devel] Persistent Main Memory in QEmu

2016-04-18 Thread Li, Tianyou
il 19, 2016 4:20 AM To: Li, Tianyou Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Persistent Main Memory in QEmu Hi Tianyou, On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:50 AM, Li, Tianyou wrote: > Currently we are trying to implement below functionalities in QEmu: > main memory in guest can be logicall

[Qemu-devel] Persistent Main Memory in QEmu

2016-04-18 Thread Li, Tianyou
Hi, Currently we are trying to implement below functionalities in QEmu: main memory in guest can be logically viewed as persistent and its content can be survived through reboot or shutdown/powerup. I have looked into the QEmu memory management code include memory.c, exec.c and other related s