On 20.03.2012 14:30, Shawn Davis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > > > I am working on a grad school project for virtual introspection. I have > a vm running(with 512mb of memory) and want to access the pmemsave > function through virsh with the qemu-monitor-command. I am typing the > following: > > > > virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp Shawn ‘pmemsave 0 536870912 image.dump’ > > > > Shawn is the name of my vm and image.dump is the name of my output > file. No matter what I do, I keep getting: Could not open ‘image.dump’ > > > > I have tried the above with sudo and with the absolute path of where the > newly created dump file should go and I still get that error. Any help > is appreciated as to how I should enter this command. > > > > If I type in virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp Shawn ‘info mem’ or any > other command without an output path, it works fineand brings up > information about my running vm. > > > > Regards, > > Shawn I guess qemu can't access the path you are trying, esp. when you run it without root privileges. However, you can use virDomainMemoryPeek() instead. Michal
