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From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Add 'kvm pause' command
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:34:39 +0300
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On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 09:29 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This patch adds a 'kvm debug' command that's currently an alias for
> >
> >  kill -USR2 `pidof kvm`
> >
> > Which pauses a guest (freezes all VCPU threads).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> 
> What is this useful for? Debugging? Don't we need a command to
> unfreeze the guest as well?

It unfreezes the guest if it's paused. I should have mentioned that in
the commit message.

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Sasha.