libvirt users - Nov 2011 - CentOS5: libvirtd filling up /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save

How can I disable libvirtd from attempting to suspend VMs on poweroff /
reboot?  It is slowly filling up our /var/ filesystem with save points at
/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/<vm name>.save, even though I'm not
initiating
any suspend or restore functionality.

 

I checked /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf and /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf but could
not find anything.

 

This is CentOS 5 with libvirt 0.8.2-22 and kvm-83-239.

 

Thanks.

 

Ben Clay

 <mailto:rbclay at ncsu.edu> rbclay at ncsu.edu

 

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On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 17:14:47 -0400, Ben Clay wrote:
> How can I disable libvirtd from attempting to suspend VMs on poweroff /
> reboot?
There is a separate init script which provides this feature. All you need to
do is to disable it:

    chkconfig libvirt-guests off

Alternatively, you may configure it to shutdown your VMs instead of suspending
them. See /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests.
> It is slowly filling up our /var/ filesystem with save points at
> /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/<vm name>.save
IIRC, that libvirt version had a bug that save files were not removed after
successful resume, which I believe is fixed in current release.

Jirka