State saving and loading
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Renode offers a capability to save the state of the emulation to a file.

Such a file can be transferred to another user and then loaded to fully recreate the original setup.
No additional binaries or configuration files are required.

To save the emulation state to a file called ``statefile.dat``, run::

    (monitor) Save @statefile.dat

This file can be used with the ``Load`` command::

    (monitor) Load @statefile.dat

It is important to remember that a state file created on one version of Renode may not be compatible with another one.

Please note that loading the state file clears the current emulation, and is equivalent to::

    (monitor) Clear
    (monitor) Load @statefile.dat

.. note::

    After the state is loaded, you must manually set the Monitor's context and reopen UART windows::

        (monitor) mach set 0
        (machine-0) showAnalyzer sysbus.uart