add yaml serializer for snapshot meta data #53
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QEMU-Nyx creates and stores several files representing the serialized root snapshot in the configured snapshot directory. With this PR, a YAML file is also created, in which specific snapshot metadata is stored in addition to the binary snapshot files. The file will not be used by QEMU-Nyx anymore after it has been created. However, the front end can easily read the YAML file without having to parse the binary file format used by QEMU-Nyx.
This PR is a WIP and lacks support for in-memory root snapshots.
Below is an example of the output YAML file: