<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Chris Lalancette <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clalance@redhat.com">clalance@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Gianluca Cecchi wrote:<br>
> Is the save function in virt-manager for a vm equivalent to these steps:<br>
><br>
> 1) pause vm (for example in virt-manager gui)<br>
> 2) save disk image to file<br>
> 3) run vm again<br>
> ?<br>
> Is any mem state preserved in this save operation?<br>
<br>
</div>It's equivalent to steps 1) and 2), followed by a kill of the paused VM. And<br>
yes, the memory state is preserved. On a restore, the memory state is restored,<br>
and the VM is set running again.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>And is it supposed to work at this time on F11 + fedora-virt-preview repo?<br>Because I get the window saying "operation in progress" but it seems blocked.<br><br>In fact also a "virsh list" command at this point remains pending.....<br>
<br>The process seems to have only being written about 1400 bytes of the saved file:<br>-rw------- 1 root root 1400 2009-09-21 17:46 save_vm_prova2<br><br>An fuser command on that file gives nothing.<br>An strace on virt-manager process gives:<br>
[root@virtfedbis tmp]# strace -p 648<br>Process 648 attached - interrupt to quit<br>futex(0x2ff705c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 1, NULL<br><br>The Vm is no more reachable and was doing almost nothing when the "save" operation was started.<br>
It seems nothing relevant in messages or virt-manager.log or vm log prova2.log....<br><br>If it is supposed to work I'm going to open a bug... <br><br>Thanks,<br>Gianluca<br>