15.4. Suspending a Virtual Machine

15.4. Suspending a Virtual Machine

You can use virsh to suspend a domain:

virsh suspend [domain-id | domain-name |domain-uuid]

When a domain is in a suspended state, it still consumes system RAM. There will also be no disk or network I/O when suspended. This operation is immediate and the virtual machine must be restarted with the resume option .


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