Hi Jatin, Your guest will have a dirty shutdown… Probably not the best way to shutdown a guest… For the host and other guests, no worries. Greetings, Dominique. *Van:*Jatin Davey [mailto:jashokda@cisco.com] *Verzonden:* woensdag 8 april 2015 10:25 *Aan:* libvirt-users(a)redhat.com *Onderwerp:* [libvirt-users] SIGTERM signal to qemu-kvm process Hi I am using QEMU 0.12.1 as the hypervisor in my RHEL installation of 6.5. I wanted to know if there are any side-effects with respect to VM image corruption when i use SIGTERM signal to kill a qemu-kvm process which effectively stops my VM running on the host. Appreciate if you can provide me some valuable information in this regard. Thanks Jatin

On 08.04.2015 10:24, Jatin Davey wrote: > Hi > > I am using QEMU 0.12.1 as the hypervisor in my RHEL installation of 6.5. > > I wanted to know if there are any side-effects with respect to VM image > corruption when i use SIGTERM signal to kill a qemu-kvm process which > effectively stops my VM running on the host. It's equivalent to plugging the power cord from a computer. If you're using journaled FS, disks should be in consistent state, however you still may experience data loss. Moreover, I'd advice you to use virDomainDestroy() API (or 'virsh destroy'). Michal