diff --git a/include/migration/colo.h b/include/migration/colo.h
index 59a632a418006eb0d8e5a5c633c9b2a85f7249e5..1c899a0bc4e6d8a48d1cb7689e1b374167722290 100644
--- a/include/migration/colo.h
+++ b/include/migration/colo.h
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@
 #define QEMU_COLO_H
 
 #include "qemu-common.h"
+#include "migration/migration.h"
 
 bool colo_supported(void);
+void colo_info_init(void);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/migration/Makefile.objs b/migration/Makefile.objs
index cff96f0a0679430cd8d5d4b7006b3f5f53a96a01..4bbe9ab31395b8e70371ad1f05fa2813bd036cfd 100644
--- a/migration/Makefile.objs
+++ b/migration/Makefile.objs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 common-obj-y += migration.o socket.o fd.o exec.o
 common-obj-y += tls.o
 common-obj-$(CONFIG_COLO) += colo.o
+common-obj-y += colo-comm.o
 common-obj-y += vmstate.o
 common-obj-y += qemu-file.o
 common-obj-y += qemu-file-channel.o
diff --git a/migration/colo-comm.c b/migration/colo-comm.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2d5185a8ac407dec7170bc7440c29a5ee7317fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/migration/colo-comm.c
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+ * COarse-grain LOck-stepping Virtual Machines for Non-stop Service (COLO)
+ * (a.k.a. Fault Tolerance or Continuous Replication)
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 FUJITSU LIMITED
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 Intel Corporation
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or
+ * later. See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include "qemu/osdep.h"
+#include <migration/colo.h>
+#include "trace.h"
+
+typedef struct {
+     bool colo_requested;
+} COLOInfo;
+
+static COLOInfo colo_info;
+
+static void colo_info_pre_save(void *opaque)
+{
+    COLOInfo *s = opaque;
+
+    s->colo_requested = migrate_colo_enabled();
+}
+
+static bool colo_info_need(void *opaque)
+{
+   return migrate_colo_enabled();
+}
+
+static const VMStateDescription colo_state = {
+    .name = "COLOState",
+    .version_id = 1,
+    .minimum_version_id = 1,
+    .pre_save = colo_info_pre_save,
+    .needed = colo_info_need,
+    .fields = (VMStateField[]) {
+        VMSTATE_BOOL(colo_requested, COLOInfo),
+        VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST()
+    },
+};
+
+void colo_info_init(void)
+{
+    vmstate_register(NULL, 0, &colo_state, &colo_info);
+}
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 74dfe4eef9b7de04b2b6077fc3272956cf82e84f..a1cee4f3f4ba2472113c5c68e9d660fe0528c349 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 #include "audio/audio.h"
 #include "migration/migration.h"
 #include "sysemu/cpus.h"
+#include "migration/colo.h"
 #include "sysemu/kvm.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qjson.h"
 #include "qemu/option.h"
@@ -4426,6 +4427,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
 #endif
     }
 
+    colo_info_init();
+
     if (net_init_clients() < 0) {
         exit(1);
     }