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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to stop `qemu-system-x86_64 ...` instead of
 `kill -9`?
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To: Sam <batmanustc@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 05:24:40PM +0800, Sam wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I'm running `qemu-system-x86_64 ...` to start a guest vm. Now I want to
> stop and destroy this vm, I found there is no `qemu-stop` related command,
> so I have to `kill -9` this process.
> 
> How could I stop `qemu-system-x86_64` instead of `kill -9`? Use `virsh`
> command or something?

"virsh destroy $name"? Or "quit" in qemu QMP/HMP?

(I'd say I use kill a lot, especially when I'm using -nographic)

-- 
Peter Xu