Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v3 0/2] API to invoke S3/S4 on a host and also resume from within libvirt

On 11/09/2011 05:05 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > (This patch is positioned to go in after the patch that exports the host > power management capabilities as XML, posted in [4]) I'm now reviewing that patch along with this series; if we need another revision, it may be easiest to merge the three patches into a single series and title it v6, so that they are together in one thread. > > This patch adds a new API to put a host to a suspended state (either > Suspend-to-RAM or Suspend-to-Disk) and setup a timed resume to get the > host back online, from within libvirt. > This uses the RTC wakeup mechanism to set up a timer alarm before > suspending the host, so that in-band resume is facilitated by the firing > of the RTC alarm, which wakes up the host. I'm not as familiar with S3/S4 as I would like to be - am I correct that RTC wakeup works for S3 (where the host is maintaining minimal power and can thus react to interrupts), but not S4 (where the host has flushed completely to disk and powers off, but resumes from the state on disk on next power on)? Or am I misunderstanding these two power-saving states?