Forgot to say: I am working with kvm-72 Does that have implication on the correctness of the save/restore of VM state ? Zvi Dubitzky Virtualization and System Architecture Email:dubi@xxxxxxxxxx IBM Haifa Research Laboratory Phone: +972-4-8296182 Haifa, 31905, ISRAEL "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> 23/03/2009 11:36 Please respond to "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> To Zvi Dubitzky/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL cc libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject Re: [libvirt] save/ restore a domain with kvm On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:04:17PM +0200, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: > I am working with virsh > > The version of VIRSH as it shows is : > virsh # version > Compiled against library: libvir 0.4.4 > Using library: libvir 0.4.4 > Using API: QEMU 0.4.4 > Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.9.1 > > Under virsh I do the following : > 1. suspend a running VM > 2. save it to a file with the 'save' command > 3. restore the saved domain file with the 'restore' command while the > domain is still in the suspend mode > or after it was shutdown/destroyed (not seen with 'list --all) > In either case I get the error message saying : > > virsh # restore /home/dubi/xml/vm_dubi2.sav > libvir: QEMU error : operation failed: failed to start VM > error: Failed to restore domain from /home/dubi/xml/vm_dubi2.xml > > Any idea what is the failure reason ? Check the /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$HOME.log file for more information from QEMU Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list