[libvirt-users] Persisting the libvirt guest's reason code.

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

Re-adding the mailing list - please don't take discussions off-list
in this way.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 05:14:45PM +0000, Tanmoy Sinha wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> Thanks for your prompt response. I have another question, as soon as I do
> virsh save <GuestID> <filename>, the corresponding xml and pid under
> /var/run/libvirt/qemu is gone, but the guest still has a definition. At
> this point, if I query the domain state (i.e. virsh domstate --reason
> <GUESTID>) it reads shutoff(saved). Where does this fetch the reason from,
> when the /var/run/libvirt/qemu/Guestname.xml file is gone? Libvirtd
> maintains the reason code in-memory?

That's true only if the guest has a persistent config file in /etc/libvirt.
Regards,
Daniel
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