From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Ways to pause a VM? Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:43:42 -0500 Message-ID: <47006CEE.2000207@codemonkey.ws> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel To: Jun Koi Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Jun Koi wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question concerning how to pause a running VM. As far as I > can see, there are 2 ways: > 1) Send STOP signal to the related QEMU process > This prevents the QEMU process from running at all. The VNC server and monitor interface will become unresponsive. > 2) Use monitor interface to stop the QEMU process ("stop" command) > The QEMU process still runs but the guest's VCPUs are never run. The VNC server and monitor interface will still be responsive. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Are these 2 ways equivelant? Any advantage or disadvantage of each > method compare to the other? > > Many thanks, > Jun > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/