[fedora-virt] Suspending VMs on host shutdown

[Dor Laor]

On 08/15/2011 06:45 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 15/08/11 14:38, Dor Laor wrote:
>> On 08/15/2011 05:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> On 08/15/2011 04:12 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
>>>> My specific example was that this morning qemu-kvm updated from
>>>> 0.15.0-1.fc15 to 0.15.0-0.3.201108040af4922.fc15 and shortly after that
>>>> I restarted my host only to find that the VM that had been running for
>>>> some time wouldn't start. Looking at the logs showed:
>>>>
>>>> Unknown savevm section or instance 'kvmclock' 0
>>>> load of migration failed
>>>
>>> That's not good, and it would be nice if we could improve the situation.
>>> However,
>>
>> The above is a bug, there is a mechanism to take care of preserving
>> older version format by specifying a 'machine type' flag using -M
>> qemu0.15. I do think it is there on default so it is just a but in this
>> case.
>
> The command line being used to restart the VM had "-M pc-0.11" as part
> of it in fact.

That's probably why it didn't work, it is a relevantly old machine type 
that wasn't that good maintained. Newer machines type should function 
better (and avoid old issues pc.0.11 had)

>
> Tom
>