Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu-ga: Introduce guest-hibernate command

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 19:07:00 +0000
"Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 04:52:58PM -0200, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > This is basically suspend to disk on a Linux guest.
> 
> > Now, while testing this or even "echo disk > /sys/power/state" I get several
> > funny results. Some times qemu just dies after printing that message:
> 
> I think you should really be invoking  'pm-hibernate', because IIUC there
> are others tasks that need to be done, besides just telling the kernel
> to hibernate via sysfs.

The good thing about it is that it will work among all distros... Maybe
we should try to run '/usr/sbin/pm-hibernate' first, and only write to
the sysfs file if that fails.