Hi there, I've wrote a script for starting and stopping the KVM guest machines either by saving and restoring or by graceful shutdown and start. My question, is there an option within "libvirt" to make the KVM guest machines get saved when the KVM host shuts down? I had problems to gracefully shutdown Windows VM's!!! Right now I had to write these scripts to save and restore the machines upon starting and stopping the KVM host. Many Thanks for your response vim /etc/init.d/kvm-win0-rcs ################################################################################################### #!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: kvm-win0-rcs # Required-Start: $kvm $libvirtd # Required-Stop: $kvm $libvirtd # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Starting/Saving, Stopping/Restoring kvm-win0-rcs KVM guest. # Description: Starting/Saving, Stopping/Restoring KVM guest "win0". # kvm-win0-rcs KVM guest. ### END INIT INFO# # Please copy the init scripts of the KVM VM's in to "/etc/init.d" and then run! "for i in `cd /etc/init.d && ls kvm-*` ; do update-rc.d $i defaults 21 19 ; done" # U need per VM a separate start-stop-script! VM_NAME="win0" # Name of ur guest VM in the XML config file located in "/etc/libvirt/qemu/". TIMEOUT=300 VM_SAVE_DIR="/kvm/tmp/vm_save_dir" # Directory for storing the guest VM save data. DEVNULL="/dev/null" #ACTION="shutdown" ACTION="save" # ACTION takes one argument, either "save" or "shutdown". In the "save" case it will save the VM and restore it while stopping or starting. In the "shutdown" case it will shutdown then VM and start it while stopping or starting. vmshutdown () { if ! virsh list|grep running|grep -v grep|grep "$VM_NAME" > "$DEVNULL" 2>&1; then echo "VM "$VM_NAME" is not running!!! Exiting." exit 1 fi PID=$(ps ax|grep $VM_NAME|grep kvm|cut -c 1-6) COUNT=0 echo "kvmshutdown \: Shutting down "$VM_NAME" with pid $PID" virsh shutdown "$VM_NAME" && exit 0 while [ "$COUNT" -lt "$TIMEOUT" ]; do ps --pid $PID > "$DEVNULL" 2>&1 if [ "$?" -eq "1" ]; then exit 0 fi sleep 5 COUNT=$(($COUNT+5)) done echo "kvmshutdown \: Timeout happend. Destroying VM "$VM_NAME"" virsh destroy "$VM_NAME" && exit 1 } vmstart () { if virsh list|grep running|grep -v grep|grep "$VM_NAME" > "$DEVNULL" 2>&1; then echo "VM "$VM_NAME" is allready running!!! Exiting." exit 1 fi virsh start "$VM_NAME" && exit 0 exit 1 } vmsave () { if ! virsh list|grep running|grep -v grep|grep "$VM_NAME" > "$DEVNULL" 2>&1; then echo "VM "$VM_NAME" is not running!!! Exiting." exit 1 fi PID=$(ps ax|grep $VM_NAME|grep kvm|cut -c 1-6) COUNT=0 echo "vmsave \: Saving VM "$VM_NAME"" if [ ! -d "$VM_SAVE_DIR" ]; then echo "creating "$VM_SAVE_DIR"" mkdir -p "$VM_SAVE_DIR" fi virsh save "$VM_NAME" "$VM_SAVE_DIR/$VM_NAME.kvm.save" && exit 0 while [ "$COUNT" -lt "$TIMEOUT" ]; do ps --pid $PID > "$DEVNULL" 2>&1 if [ "$?" -eq "1" ]; then exit 0 fi sleep 5 COUNT=$(($COUNT+5)) done echo "vmsave \: Timeout happend. Destroying VM "$VM_NAME"" virsh destroy "$VM_NAME" exit 1 } vmrestore () { if virsh list|grep running|grep -v grep|grep "$VM_NAME" > "$DEVNULL" 2>&1; then echo "VM "$VM_NAME" is allready running!!! Exiting." exit 1 fi if ! ls "$VM_SAVE_DIR"/"$VM_NAME".kvm.save > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then echo "Restore file "$VM_NAME".kvm.save in "$VM_SAVE_DIR" not found! Starting VM!!!" vmstart exit 1 fi cd "$VM_SAVE_DIR" echo "vmrestore \: Restoring VM "$VM_NAME"" virsh restore "$VM_SAVE_DIR"/"$VM_NAME".kvm.save && rm -f "$VM_SAVE_DIR"/"$VM_NAME".kvm.save exit 0 } # Here is the start of the main "program" :-) case "$1" in start) case "$ACTION" in save) vmrestore ;; shutdown) vmstart ;; esac ;; stop) case "$ACTION" in save) vmsave ;; shutdown) vmshutdown ;; esac ;; *) N="$0" echo "Usage: "$N" {start|stop}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 ################################################################################################### -- mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Saman Behnam -- opensoft24-Systems Lena-Christ-Str. 3 80807 München Tel.: +49 (0) 89 69397631 Fax.: +49 (0) 89 69397631 info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx www.opensoft24.de www.opensoft24.com Bankverbindung: Postbank München BLZ.: 70010080 Kto.: 279702806 Steuer-Nr.: 135 70442 UST-IdNr.: 76 158 941 031 IBAN.: PBNKDEFF SWIFT.: DE21700100800279702806 Diese Nachricht und/oder Anhänge sind vertraulich und können der Geheimhaltungspflicht unterliegen. 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