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

[Jatin Davey]

On 4/9/2015 1:54 PM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> 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
>
Thank you for the response Michal.

Thanks
Jatin