Re: what does "virsh destroy" really ?

Michael Hierweck
Tue, 06 Oct 2020 08:22:03 -0000

On 06.10.20 10:16, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>
> You don't need to be so scared of virsh destroy. It is simply akin to
pulling
> out the power plug, and modern OS with a decent journaling filesystem will
> recover from that quite reasonably. Sure you'll loose state of
what's running,
> but 99% of the time your guest will boot up again just fine.

In case one of our (many) VMs crash we "destroy" it. We never
experiencend any Problem you
would not expect in case of physical server crashes.

Over the last 10 years this happened more than 1000 times...

Michael