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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Sam <batmanustc@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-discuss@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-discuss] How to stop `qemu-system-x86_64 ...` instead of `kill -9`?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:31:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170712103131.GA11040@lemon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOE=1Z3ve+zQJbjqqfNA1iB_mNgFkoTTXRxyBikSiJ5_AZwpiA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 07/12 17:24, 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.

If you have a "monitor", send "quit" command is the right way. The simplest type
of monitor (HMP on your console) is with the option "-monitor stdio".

Even without monitors, SIGKILL is likely overkill. QEMU responds to SIGTERM and
SIGINT more gracefully.

Fam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-12 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-12  9:24 [Qemu-devel] How to stop `qemu-system-x86_64 ...` instead of `kill -9`? Sam
2017-07-12  9:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-discuss] " Vincenzo Romano
2017-07-12  9:37 ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Xu
2017-07-12 10:31 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2017-07-12 11:34 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé

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