[libvirt-users] Preventing 'virsh start' while doing backup?

[Ken Coar]

Is there any way to interface with virsh to keep it from executing a
startup operation?  Sort of like the /etc/nologin (man page nologin(5))
mechanism?

Basically, I want to be able to shut down a VM in order to copy its
disk images, and be reasonably assured that it won't be started
before I'm finished.

Is there any sort of hook or interlock file or other mechanism to
accomplish this?

Thanks!
-- 
#ken	B-)}

Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini
IT Engineering Tower, Red Hat/RDU

"Millennium hand and shrimp!"