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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