[libvirt-users] monitor option in libvirt ?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:33:27PM +0100, Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
> 
> because I wold like to do this:
> 
> 1) start qemu-kvm and redirect the monitor to a named pipe called let's 
> say my.pipe
> 
> 2) write into the named pipe with a script when I want to take a 
> snapshot, somthing like:
> 
>    echo "savevm mysnapshot">my.pipe
> 
> bascally I need to be able to access the monitor to issue a savevm 
> command because I want to take
> a snapshot of my qcow2 images.

That's not currently supported, but is being worked on

  http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-January/msg00506.html

Daniel
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