[ale] Qemu experiences (or.....wow!) - how-to

John Wells jb at sourceillustrated.com
Mon Feb 28 08:43:24 EST 2005


Jim Popovitch said:
> What about suspend/resume functionality?  Is is possible to suspend a
> QEMU virtual system and resume it later?

Yes.

>From within a running session, type CTRL+ALT+2 to access the qemu monitor
screen (monitor being a utility, not a CRT :) ).

Type "savevm /path/to/save.file".  Qemu will save out the current state to
that file.

Now, quit the emulator and drop to a command line.  To load your saved
session, type you're normal qemu command line, but add "-loadvm
/path/to/save.file" to the end.  For example:

qemu -hda ./MYWINIMG.img -cdrom -boot c -loadvm /path/to/save.file

That should do it.

Pretty damn cool :)

John



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