--memory-only option is introduced without compression supported. Therefore, this is a freature regression of virsh dump. This patchset is used to add compression support in libvirt side and please refer the following address to see the qemu side, the lastest version of qemu side v7(ready for comment now). http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-01/msg03669.html qiaonuohan (2): support compression when --memory-only option is specified support configuring the format of dumping memory in qemu.conf include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in | 18 +++++++++---- src/libvirt.c | 15 +++++++++++ src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug | 1 + src/qemu/qemu.conf | 6 +++++ src/qemu/qemu_conf.c | 2 ++ src/qemu/qemu_conf.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 6 ++--- src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 3 ++- src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 4 ++- src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h | 3 ++- src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in | 1 + tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c | 2 +- tools/virsh-domain.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++ 14 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1