Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc: map pc ram from user-specified file

2011-12-19 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 12/19/2011 12:26 PM, Peter Feiner wrote: Hi, Is there any interest in this feature? BTW, as far as I can tell, on qemu-devel I'm not supposed to re-post the patch or post a v2 if there haven't been any specific requests for changes to v1. Please let me know if you'd like me to submit a new p

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc: map pc ram from user-specified file

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Feiner
Hi, Is there any interest in this feature? BTW, as far as I can tell, on qemu-devel I'm not supposed to re-post the patch or post a v2 if there haven't been any specific requests for changes to v1. Please let me know if you'd like me to submit a new patch! Thanks, Peter Feiner

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc: map pc ram from user-specified file

2011-12-08 Thread Peter Feiner
>> Do you have any performance number for this?  And examples on how your >> are using it? > Our principal use case is implementing VM migration techniques. There are other uses of a RAM file interface that I can imagine: - debugging, e.g., inspecting the memory of a VM after it has crashed - se

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc: map pc ram from user-specified file

2011-12-01 Thread Peter Feiner
> Hi Hi Juan, Sorry for taking so long to reply -- my email filters apparently aren't setup correctly! > Do you have any performance number for this?  And examples on how your > are using it? The performance should depend only on the VMA backing the file, in addition to any indirect overhead ca

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc: map pc ram from user-specified file

2011-11-27 Thread Juan Quintela
Peter Feiner wrote: > Enables providing a backing file for the PC's ram. The file is specified by > the > new -pcram-file option. The file is mmap'd shared, so the RAMBlock that it > backs > doesn't need to be saved by vm_save / migration. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner Hi Do you have any pe

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc: map pc ram from user-specified file

2011-11-25 Thread Peter Feiner
Enables providing a backing file for the PC's ram. The file is specified by the new -pcram-file option. The file is mmap'd shared, so the RAMBlock that it backs doesn't need to be saved by vm_save / migration. Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner --- We have found this small feature very useful for expe