How to kill qemu without losing (paused) VM?

[Bill Davidsen]

Neil Bird wrote:
> 
>   I admit I may be missing something obvious, I'm new to this VM 
> malarkey.  On my F10 running the VM manager (which I'd earlier failed to 
> get working but I think burst into life when I manually loaded the qemu 
> kmdl):
> 
>   I can pause the VMs OK, an come back to them later, but the qemu 
> process is still running, taking up RAM and seemingly eating a little CPU.
> 
>   Is it not possible to somehow shut the qemu process down on a paused 
> VM for later restart?  'Disconnecting' seemed to only apply to the VM 
> manager, and still left the qemus running.
> 
If you run KVM you can alt-cntl-F2 to get into the manager, then save a session 
and quit. You can then run the qemu-kvm command with options and restart the 
session where you left it.

I regret that I haven't done it in over a year and hesitate to quote details 
which may be misremembered or just changed. It gives you a place to look, at any 
rate.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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