[libvirt] Re: kvm-81: save / restore does not work - missing incoming stdio feature

[Daniel Schwager]

Hi Daniel,

I'm also VERY interesting in save/restore my Domains to disk - is
there a roadmap back to this feature - did you talk with the qemu
developers ?
Or should I try to contact them ?

regards
Danny


> From: Matthias Pfafferodt <matthias.pfafferodt <at> mapfa.de>
> Subject: Re: [libvirt] kvm: save / restore
>
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> thnaks for your anser. Do you know the plans regarding save/restore in
kvm and 
> libvirt? I would like to save my vm's at shutdown and restore at boot
time. 
> At the moment this is not working and shutdown is used.

Am Thursday 18 December 2008 13:42:36 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:46:43PM +0100, Matthias Pfafferodt wrote:
> > Hallo,
> >
> > I use kvm-81 and libvirt 0.5.1. I can save a kvm donain but if I
want to
> > restore it I get the following error in the log file:
> >
> > unknown migration protocol: stdio
> >
> > I tried it using only kvm and got the same error.
> >
> > How can I save / restore a VM to / from a file?
>
> The new KVM release dropped support for the '-incoming stdio' syntax
> that libvirt was using so save/restore no longer works :-(
>
> Daniel