[libvirt-users] SIGTERM signal to qemu-kvm process

[Michal Privoznik]

On 08.04.2015 10:24, Jatin Davey wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am using QEMU 0.12.1 as the hypervisor in my RHEL installation of 6.5.
> 
> I wanted to know if there are any side-effects with respect to VM image
> corruption when i use SIGTERM signal to kill a qemu-kvm process which
> effectively stops my VM running on the host.

It's equivalent to plugging the power cord from a computer. If you're
using journaled FS, disks should be in consistent state, however you
still may experience data loss. Moreover, I'd advice you to use
virDomainDestroy() API (or 'virsh destroy').

Michal