How to pause a vm

rootkid

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Jul 2, 2010
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Hi!

After being tricked by HP (thought the DL360 G4 Server could handle Intel VT) i finally got a G5 server that seems to run really fine. I was able to install proxmox completly remote via iLO and brought up my first VMs.

Now i'm searching for an option to pause VMs (KVM, Centos5.5) via the webinterface. I tried "stop", but after starting again the system is booting.
Is there a way to just freeze the VM?

Best regards,
Heiner
 
go to "Virtual machine configuration/Monitor", and try "savevm" and "loadvm".
 
Code:
qm> savevm                                                                                   
Device ide0-hd1 does not support VM state snapshots

seems it's trying to create a snapshot... I assume that's required to pause a vm? Disk is saved in raw format
 
try with qcow2 disk.
 
Thanks for the hint!

i converted the disk and my vm comes up. But "savevm" still doesn't work:
Code:
qm> savevm                                                                                   
ERROR: monitor read timeout

Why that?
 
The current code does not really support snapshots. But if you only want to freeze the VM, simply type 'stop' on the monitor comnand line - 'c' to continue.
 

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