Difference between Pause and hibernate

[jsterr]

Cant find any details in the documentation, can someone tell the difference between pause and hibernate and when to use those options?

 

[leesteken]

Cant find any details in the documentation, can someone tell the difference between pause and hibernate and when to use those options?

From https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#qm_hibernate I take that hibernates is the same as pause but the VM memory is written to disk (and it does not keep using memory like pause).

 

[jsterr]

So on Pause Memory is not written to disk, so if the host fails, the paused vm would loose its memory?

 

[bbgeek17]

If you look at the Task information:
hybernate = qmsuspend
pause = qmpause

API docs state:
suspend: You need 'VM.PowerMgmt' on /vms/{vmid}, and if you have set 'todisk', you need also 'VM.Config.Disk' on /vms/{vmid} and 'Datastore.AllocateSpace' on the storage for the vmstate.

The same /suspend API call is used, the difference is in the parameters specified

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