Hi, what does "virsh destroy" with the domain ? Send a kill -9 to the process ? Bernd -- Bernd Lentes Systemadministration Institute for Metabolism and Cell Death (MCD) Building 25 - office 122 HelmholtzZentrum München bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de phone: +49 89 3187 1241 phone: +49 89 3187 3827 fax: +49 89 3187 2294 http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/mcd stay healthy Helmholtz Zentrum München Helmholtz Zentrum München
On 2020-10-05 6:04 p.m., Lentes, Bernd wrote:> Hi, > > what does "virsh destroy" with the domain ? Send a kill -9 to the process ? > > Bernd >It forces the guest off, like pulling the power on a hardware machine. Not sure of the exact mechanism behind the scenes. It does leave the server defined and you can reboot it again later (albeit like restoring power to a normal machine, so it might need to replay journals, etc). -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 07:12:34PM -0400, Digimer wrote:>On 2020-10-05 6:04 p.m., Lentes, Bernd wrote: >> Hi, >> >> what does "virsh destroy" with the domain ? Send a kill -9 to the process ? >> >> Bernd >> > >It forces the guest off, like pulling the power on a hardware machine. >Not sure of the exact mechanism behind the scenes. It does leave the >server defined and you can reboot it again later (albeit like restoring >power to a normal machine, so it might need to replay journals, etc). >The technical details should not matter, but it tries to send "quit" to QEMU and falls back to killing it IIRC (firsh with SIGTERM and then with SIGKILL). Don't do that if you want to use the machine again ;-)>-- >Digimer >Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ >"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of >Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent >have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould > >
----- Am 6. Okt 2020 um 1:12 schrieb Digimer lists@alteeve.ca:> On 2020-10-05 6:04 p.m., Lentes, Bernd wrote: >> Hi, >> >> what does "virsh destroy" with the domain ? Send a kill -9 to the process ? >> >> Bernd >> > > It forces the guest off, like pulling the power on a hardware machine. > Not sure of the exact mechanism behind the scenes. It does leave the > server defined and you can reboot it again later (albeit like restoring > power to a normal machine, so it might need to replay journals, etc).Hi, I know what it does, i'd like to know _how_ it does it. Maybe i have to look in the source code, although i'm not a big code reader and much less a code developer. Where can i find it ? Bernd Helmholtz Zentrum München Helmholtz Zentrum München