Re: [Libvir] save and restore guest

Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 02:29:39PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: >> hi, >> if i use xen with xendomain it's possible to save and restore guest >> state. if i use libvirt it's not working (at least by default with kvm). >> i mean if i stop or restart libvirtd all guests a stopped and even if i >> restart libvirtd i've to start all guests manually. imho this's a very >> essential feature. what is the reason this not working with libvirtd?: >> - this feature is missing from libvirtd? or > > You can set KVM/QEMU guests to autostart with > > virsh autostart {NAME|ID|UUID} thanks, but go back to my first question. afais /etc/init.d/libvirtd simple kill libvirtd, but virsh has a command save/restore. wouldn't be it's much better to save guest's state on stop, restore on start in stead of start if there is a saved state. i can send a patch to the /etc/init.d/libvirtd, just would like to know is there any reason it's not that way? anyway xendomains do it in the save way.