This series introduce flag VIR_DOMAIN_SAVE_DIRECT to enable command 'save' to write to PIPE. This will write QEMU_SAVE_MAGIC directly. Base upon patches from Roy Keene <rkeene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> with some fixes. Change from original patch: 1) Check whether the specified path is a PIPE. 2) Rebase on upstream. 3) Add doc for virsh command v3: add doc/news.xml rebase on upstream v2-resend: rebase on upstream v2: rename VIR_DOMAIN_SAVE_PIPE to VIR_DOMAIN_SAVE_DIRECT remove S_ISFIFO check Chen Hanxiao (2): qemu: Allow qemuDomainSaveMemory saving VM state to a pipe virsh: introduce flage --direct for save command docs/news.xml | 9 +++++++ include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- tools/virsh-domain.c | 6 +++++ tools/virsh.pod | 5 +++- 5 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list