what does "virsh destroy" really ?

Tue Oct 6 08:22:03 UTC 2020

On 06.10.20 10:16, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> 
> You don't need to be so scared of virsh destroy. It is simply akin to pulling
> out the power plug, and modern OS with a decent journaling filesystem will
> recover from that quite reasonably. Sure you'll loose state of what's running,
> but 99% of the time your guest will boot up again just fine.

In case one of our (many) VMs crash we "destroy" it. We never experiencend any Problem you
would not expect in case of physical server crashes.

Over the last 10 years this happened more than 1000 times...

Michael