Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/2] Add support for Zipit Z2 machine

[Peter Maydell]

On 24 June 2011 18:06, Vasily Khoruzhick <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Friday 24 June 2011 17:45:06 Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Have you tried vmload/vmsave, by the way? (I don't know if all the
>> devices the pxa2xx uses have save/load support implemented, it
>> would be interesting to check if you haven't already.)
>
> Nope, how to try vmload/vmsave?

You'll need your sd card to be on an image format that supports
snapshots (use 'qemu-img convert' to convert it to qcow2). Then
you can use the monitor command 'savevm savename' to save a
snapshot at any time. Reload an old snapshot with 'loadvm savename'
or use the qemu command line '-loadvm savename' to start immediately
from a snapshot.

If the reloaded image hangs or otherwise behaves badly that's
probably a sign that some device somewhere isn't restoring all
its state; usually most easily determined by code inspection
of all the devices that your machine instantiates.

-- PMM