Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] hw: timer: Add ASPEED RTC device

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 04:17, Joel Stanley <address@hidden> wrote:
> vmstate and migration is a foreign concept for the small ARM machines.
> As well as being a developer, I am an end user of Qemu for them (the
> aspeeds, microbit), and the use case is to boot up a firmware and
> check that it does correct thing. I've never considered saving the
> state and resming it, and can't think of a situation where that would
> be done.

It's a really useful debugging tool:
 
https://translatedcode.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/tricks-for-debugging-qemu-savevm-snapshots/

thanks
-- PMM