[Qemu-devel] QEMU News

[Fabrice Bellard]

Hi,

The last commits add the following:

- New feature: the complete state of the virtual machine can be saved on 
disk (and hopefully restored !) with the commands 'savevm' and 'loadvm'. 
Not all the drivers implement the feature, but it already works enough 
to be usable. The saved virtual machine state does not include a 
description of its configuration, so when restoring the virtual machine, 
you must ensure that you have the same virtual configuration.

- First debug commands in the monitor: 'stop' (stop the VM), 'cont' 
(resume execution of the VM), 'gdbserver' (enable the integrated 
gdbserver stub at any point).

- Timer API for the device drivers (similar to the Linux kernel timers). 
It will enable the use of a virtual cycle counter to have a fully 
deterministic emulation (useful for debugging).

Fabrice.