[libvirt-users] How do you force a VM reboot (when its KPd etc) without interrupting a blockcopy?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:21:36PM -0500, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> My question is this:
> 
> If you have an ongoing blockcopy (drive-mirror) of a running transient VM, and the VM kernel panics, can you restart the VM without interrupting the ongoing blockcopy?
> 
> A virsh reboot won't work since if the VM is kernel panicked, its not going to respond to ACPI requests.

You want 'virsh reset' which does a hard reset of the CPUs / base board
and so does not require guest OS co-operation.

Regards,
Daniel
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