qemu/docs/xen-save-devices-state.txt
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   1= Save Devices =
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   3QEMU has code to load/save the state of the guest that it is running.
   4These are two complementary operations.  Saving the state just does
   5that, saves the state for each device that the guest is running.
   6
   7These operations are normally used with migration (see migration.txt),
   8however it is also possible to save the state of all devices to file,
   9without saving the RAM or the block devices of the VM.
  10
  11This operation is called "xen-save-devices-state" (see
  12QMP/qmp-commands.txt)
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  15The binary format used in the file is the following:
  16
  17
  18-------------------------------------------
  19
  2032 bit big endian: QEMU_VM_FILE_MAGIC
  2132 bit big endian: QEMU_VM_FILE_VERSION
  22
  23for_each_device
  24{
  25    8 bit:              QEMU_VM_SECTION_FULL
  26    32 bit big endian:  section_id
  27    8 bit:              idstr (ID string) length
  28    string:             idstr (ID string)
  29    32 bit big endian:  instance_id
  30    32 bit big endian:  version_id
  31    buffer:             device specific data
  32}
  33
  348 bit: QEMU_VM_EOF
  35