what does "virsh destroy" really ?

[Digimer]

On 2020-10-05 6:04 p.m., Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> what does "virsh destroy" with the domain ? Send a kill -9 to the process ?
> 
> Bernd
> 

It forces the guest off, like pulling the power on a hardware machine.
Not sure of the exact mechanism behind the scenes. It does leave the
server defined and you can reboot it again later (albeit like restoring
power to a normal machine, so it might need to replay journals, etc).

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