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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json fi
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json file for static analysis |
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Mon, 12 May 2014 06:51:54 -0600 |
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On 05/12/2014 05:16 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
> This commit adds a new command, '-dump-vmstate', that takes a filename
> as a parameter. When executed, QEMU will dump the vmstate information
> for the machine type it's invoked with to the file, and quit.
>
> The JSON-format output can then be used to compare the vmstate info for
> different QEMU versions, specifically to test whether live migration
> would break due to changes in the vmstate data.
Are we going to document that JSON format anywhere? Is it worth making
it part of qapi-schema.json, whether to also expose the dump via a QMP
command, or at a bare minimum to take advantage of some code generation
from the qapi engine rather than doing it all by hand?
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/18] migration: add static analysis tool to check vmstate compat between versions, Amit Shah, 2014/05/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json file for static analysis, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2014/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json file for static analysis, Amit Shah, 2014/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json file for static analysis, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2014/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json file for static analysis, Amit Shah, 2014/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json file for static analysis, Markus Armbruster, 2014/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json file for static analysis, Amit Shah, 2014/05/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json file for static analysis, Markus Armbruster, 2014/05/21