Thx lot, Eric Sent from my iPhone4S On Aug 13, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/13/2012 04:05 PM, Harish Patil wrote: >> Hello >> Which is the quickest way to stop KVM guest VM. I am not interested in >> saving anything; I just have to make sure that VM apps are ended quickly. >> i) virsh shutdown > > Depends on the guest honoring your request, which means it might not > succeed at all. > >> ii) virsh suspend > > Doesn't actually stop the guest, just pauses it, so the KVM process is > still around. > >> iii) virsh destroy > > Bingo. Kills the qemu process, and thus instantly frees the KVM > resources. Use with care if you plan to restart things later (it is the > same as yanking a power cord), but for a one-shot usage, this is what > you want. > >> >>> From little descriptions I have, looks like destroy is the fastest way and >> acts like a removal of a power plug. >> Pls let me know. > > You got it. > > -- > Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
