Shutdown the node with paused VMs

[lince]

Hi there,

I'm new to proxmox, I installed it last week as a substitute of esxi. I have to say that I'm quite happy with what proxmox has to offer and mostly the web environment because I don't need to use a windows vm to manage my virtual environment anymore

Well, what I wanted to ask is that I had an issue with paused VMs. Yesterday, I paused a VM and then I switched off my node. The thing is that when I shutdown my node, it seems that the paused VM got switched off aswell.

With esx I used to suspend VMs and switch off the node, and then I was able to switch on the node and the VM will still be suspended and I could start it from that point.

So the question is, does proxmox not support to pause VMs and then shutdown the node saving the paused state of the VMs ?

Thanks.

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,
the pause freeze only the vm process but do not save it.
what you VMware does is at the moment not implemented.
But you can make a snapshot with ram and after stating the host rollback the snapshot.

 

[lince]

Thanks wolf, good to know that it's not possible yet.

I tried the snapshot but I got an error and I read on the internet that snapshots are not supported with SATA disks. Would you have any suggestions on which bus/devide to use for the VMs so I can get the best performance and at the same time the best support in proxmox options (snapshot, backup...) ?

 

[wolfgang]

Snapshot is possible on ZFS, ZFSoverISCSI, RBD, LVM and local directory storage with qcow images.
Use virtio as bus sytem if you can.
virtio is para-virtual and so you get the best performance.

 

[lince]

Thanks wolf, the snapshot seems to be working properly when I don't choose the ram, but it fails when I choose to include the ram in the snapshot. The information I saw online about SATA disks not being supported must have been old.

I'll try to check some info online and if I can't get around it I'll open a new thread with more information.

Thanks for your help.