wiki/src/contribute/release_process/test/erase_memory_on_shutdown/qemu_pmemsave.mdwn


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Note that you need the qemu command, which is provided on wheezy by the `qemu-system` package.

* Start the VM
  - with default CPU (pae)

        qemu -enable-kvm -cdrom tails.iso -m 5120 -no-reboot -no-shutdown

  - with 486 CPU

        qemu -enable-kvm -cpu 486 -cdrom tails.iso -m 5120 -no-reboot -no-shutdown

* Open the qemu console (CTRL-ALT-2).
* Save physical memory to the `tails.dump` file (length is an integer, max size for one dump is 4G = 0xF0000000):

        pmemsave <start address> <length> <filename>

  e.g for 5G one has to do two dumps:

        pmemsave 0 0xF0000000 tails14.dump
        pmemsave 0x100000000 0x40000000 tails5.dump