Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU savevm RAM page offsets

2013-08-15 Thread Juerg Haefliger
I didn't mean to imply that the savevm format is broken and needed fixing. I was just wondering if the data is there and I simply hadn't found it. Upgrading QEMU is not an option at the moment since these are tightly controlled productions machines. Is it possible to loadvm

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU savevm RAM page offsets

2013-08-13 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 08/13/13 21:06, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Il 13/08/2013 19:52, Juerg Haefliger ha scritto: >>> I didn't mean to imply that the savevm format is broken and needed >>> fixing. I was just wondering if the data is there and I simply hadn't >>>

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU savevm RAM page offsets

2013-08-13 Thread Juerg Haefliger
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 13/08/2013 19:52, Juerg Haefliger ha scritto: >> I didn't mean to imply that the savevm format is broken and needed >> fixing. I was just wondering if the data is there and I simply hadn't >> found it. Upgrading QEMU is not an option at th

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU savevm RAM page offsets

2013-08-13 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 13/08/2013 19:52, Juerg Haefliger ha scritto: > I didn't mean to imply that the savevm format is broken and needed > fixing. I was just wondering if the data is there and I simply hadn't > found it. Upgrading QEMU is not an option at the moment since these > are tightly controlled productions ma

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU savevm RAM page offsets

2013-08-13 Thread Juerg Haefliger
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > (apologies for responding to myself) > > On 08/13/13 18:51, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 08/13/13 18:03, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Am 13.08.2013 15:30, schrieb Juerg Haefliger: I'm writing/extending a little tool (courtesy of And

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU savevm RAM page offsets

2013-08-13 Thread Laszlo Ersek
(apologies for responding to myself) On 08/13/13 18:51, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 08/13/13 18:03, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Am 13.08.2013 15:30, schrieb Juerg Haefliger: >>> I'm writing/extending a little tool (courtesy of Andrew @pikewerks) >>> that dumps the RAM pages from a savevm file

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU savevm RAM page offsets

2013-08-13 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 08/13/13 18:03, Andreas Färber wrote: > Hi, > > Am 13.08.2013 15:30, schrieb Juerg Haefliger: >> I'm writing/extending a little tool (courtesy of Andrew @pikewerks) >> that dumps the RAM pages from a savevm file to a raw memory dump file >> so that it can be analysed using tools that require a

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU savevm RAM page offsets

2013-08-13 Thread Andreas Färber
Hi, Am 13.08.2013 15:30, schrieb Juerg Haefliger: > I'm writing/extending a little tool (courtesy of Andrew @pikewerks) > that dumps the RAM pages from a savevm file to a raw memory dump file > so that it can be analysed using tools that require a raw dump as > input. Can't you just use QEMU's gu

[Qemu-devel] QEMU savevm RAM page offsets

2013-08-13 Thread Juerg Haefliger
Hi, I'm writing/extending a little tool (courtesy of Andrew @pikewerks) that dumps the RAM pages from a savevm file to a raw memory dump file so that it can be analysed using tools that require a raw dump as input. I can successfully locate and extract the pages and write them out to file. This s