Hi libvirt maintainers,

 

Thank you for maintaining such a great tool. I'm new to this area and I have a question when using libvirt with qemu. 

 

When I start a VM with qemu process I can specify -no-shutdown flag so that my qemu process is not shutdown even if I shutdown the VM from the inside (issue shutdown or halt command inside VM). The reason I want to do this is I can continue my jobs for example backup (drive-backup) after VM gets shutdown by the user, and I'm able to check the status of the job through qmp commands. I'm moving to libvirt from qemu to manage my VM, and I'm struggling with how to do the same thing through virsh. I'm able to pass the -no-shutdown flag into qemu but it behaves differently in virsh when I shutdown the VM. Much appreciated if someone could give me a hint.

 

Thanks for reading.