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    HOWTO use saved Qemu VM states with start-qemu-kolab-server.sh
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SAVING THE VM-SNAPSHOT
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  1. Start the virtual machine as usual with 

       ./start-qemu-kolab-server.sh

     In this example the Qemu Monitor is tied to stdio (the default)


  2. Optionally: create users, test mails etc. as requested.


  3. Press `C-a c' in the shell where qemu was started in step 1.  
     Now you entered the Qemu monitor, here the current vm state can be
     saved using:

       savevm NAME

     where NAME is an freely chosen human readable identifier.
     You may save more than one state with different identifiers.


  4. Stop the virtual machine, for example by entering `quit' into the
     Qemu monitor (or simply killing qemu by any other means).




RESTORING THE VM-SNAPSHOT
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* Manually:


  1. Start the virtual machine as usual with 

       ./start-qemu-kolab-server.sh


  3. Press `C-a c' in the shell where qemu was started in step 1.  
     Now you entered the Qemu monitor, here the saved vm state can be
     loaded using:

       loadvm NAME

     where NAME is the identifier used in the savevm command.
     (You may list all available snapshots using `info snapshots'.)


* Automatically:


  1. Set the new option LOADVM in the qemu-kolab-server.conf file to
     the NAME of an caved vm state.

  2. Run start-qemu-kolab-server.sh as usual.
