From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33711) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAEZY-0001e2-K5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:30:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAEZT-0002KL-0m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:30:44 -0400 Received: from mail.ispras.ru ([83.149.199.45]:43918) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAEZS-0002Jx-OF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:30:38 -0400 From: Pavel Dovgalyuk Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:33:51 +0300 Message-ID: <20181010133351.24538.25271.stgit@pasha-VirtualBox> In-Reply-To: <20181010133333.24538.53169.stgit@pasha-VirtualBox> References: <20181010133333.24538.53169.stgit@pasha-VirtualBox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 03/19] replay: update docs for record/replay with block devices List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, war2jordan@live.com, pavel.dovgaluk@ispras.ru, mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, zuban32s@gmail.com, kraxel@redhat.com, thomas.dullien@googlemail.com, artem.k.pisarenko@gmail.com, quintela@redhat.com, ciro.santilli@gmail.com, armbru@redhat.comdovgaluk@ispras.ru, dgilbert@redhat.com, boost.lists@gmail.com, alex.bennee@linaro.org, rth@twiddle.net, kwolf@redhat.com, crosthwaite.peter@gmail.com, mreitz@redhat.com, maria.klimushenkova@ispras.ru, pbonzini@redhat.com This patch updates the description of the command lines for using record/replay with attached block devices. Signed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk --- docs/replay.txt | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/replay.txt b/docs/replay.txt index 3497585..2c2c5f6 100644 --- a/docs/replay.txt +++ b/docs/replay.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Usage of the record/replay: * First, record the execution with the following command line: qemu-system-i386 \ -icount shift=7,rr=record,rrfile=replay.bin \ - -drive file=disk.qcow2,if=none,id=img-direct \ + -drive file=disk.qcow2,if=none,snapshot,id=img-direct \ -drive driver=blkreplay,if=none,image=img-direct,id=img-blkreplay \ -device ide-hd,drive=img-blkreplay \ -netdev user,id=net1 -device rtl8139,netdev=net1 \ @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Usage of the record/replay: * After recording, you can replay it by using another command line: qemu-system-i386 \ -icount shift=7,rr=replay,rrfile=replay.bin \ - -drive file=disk.qcow2,if=none,id=img-direct \ + -drive file=disk.qcow2,if=none,snapshot,id=img-direct \ -drive driver=blkreplay,if=none,image=img-direct,id=img-blkreplay \ -device ide-hd,drive=img-blkreplay \ -netdev user,id=net1 -device rtl8139,netdev=net1 \ @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ Block devices record/replay module intercepts calls of bdrv coroutine functions at the top of block drivers stack. To record and replay block operations the drive must be configured as following: - -drive file=disk.qcow2,if=none,id=img-direct + -drive file=disk.qcow2,if=none,snapshot,id=img-direct -drive driver=blkreplay,if=none,image=img-direct,id=img-blkreplay -device ide-hd,drive=img-blkreplay @@ -252,6 +252,12 @@ This snapshot is created at start of recording and restored at start of replaying. It also can be loaded while replaying to roll back the execution. +'snapshot' flag of the disk image must be removed to save the snapshots +in the overlay (or original image) instead of using the temporary overlay. + -drive file=disk.ovl,if=none,id=img-direct + -drive driver=blkreplay,if=none,image=img-direct,id=img-blkreplay + -device ide-hd,drive=img-blkreplay + Use QEMU monitor to create additional snapshots. 'savevm ' command created the snapshot and 'loadvm ' restores it. To prevent corruption of the original disk image, use overlay files linked to the original images.