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On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 8:20 AM Christian Rohmann <
christian.rohmann at inovex.de> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> On 04/08/2021 19:37, Sean Mooney wrote:
>
> I had something unusual happen this morning; one of my VMs was showing "Suspended" under the Power State in the Horizon dashboard.
>
> I've never seen that.  What does it mean?
>
> Any search that I do points me to a bunch of resources for Status Suspended.
>
> suspened is like hibernate in windows. in the libvirt driver we call libvirt managed_save api
> this pauses the guests,  snapshots the guest ram and saves it to disk then stops the instance.
> so this frees the guest ram on the host and save it to a file so that we can recreate the vm and resume it
> as if nothing happened.
>
> Sorry to hijack such an old thread. Looking into these features, I was
> just wondering if it was possible to:
>
>   1) Disable the support for pause / suspend altogether and not allow
> anyone to place instances in such states?
>
you can use policy to disable suspending vms via the api

>   2) Change the storage location of the saved guest RAM to a shared
> storage to allow the instance to be migrated while being suspended/paused.
> As far as I can see currently this data is saved on the host disk.
>
you can mount the path where things get saved at where ever you want (I
think it’s somewhere inside /var/lib/nova/instances)

>
> Regards
>
>
> Christian
>
>
> --
Mohammed Naser
VEXXHOST, Inc.
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