Triggering a checkpoint from inside the VM
Tony Brian Albers
tba at kb.dk
Wed Sep 8 05:57:46 UTC 2021
On 08/09/2021 06.22, Leek, Jim wrote:
>
> 1. Connect to the qemu monitor with telnet from inside the VM. (Therefore skipping the whole ssh remote command thing.)
I'd go the other way around, make the guest touch a file somewhere and
let the host check if the file is there/has been updated, and based on
that, run the savevm process.
> 2. Run the VM without virt-manager (perhaps that would be simpler?)
>
I think you can specify the settings for the VM through virt-manager and
then just use virsh to manage it afterwards.
Also, check out github for kvm backup scripts, I know there are some
that you could use.
HTH
/tony
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