<p>After long searching and experiments, the best option for me became qemu monitor. See <a href="https://nico.schottelius.org/blog/control-and-shutdown-qemu-kvm-vm-via-unix-socket/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nico.schottelius.org/blog/control-and-shutdown-qemu-kvm-vm-via-unix-socket/</a> for more details regarding flexible management guest by using qemu monitor.</p>

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<p>I have installed KVM without libvirt/virsh and virtualmanager. </p>

<p>Packages which installed are kvm qemu-kvm bridge-utils libguestfs-tools</p>

<p>How can I pause/suspend VM in this case?</p>

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Pause/Suspend guest in KVM without virsh and libvirtd
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# Pause/Suspend guest in KVM without virsh and libvirtd

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-15)

I have installed KVM without libvirt/virsh and virtualmanager.

Packages which installed are kvm qemu-kvm bridge-utils libguestfs-tools

How can I pause/suspend VM in this case?

**Tags:** linux, virtualization


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2017-12-19. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

After long searching and experiments, the best option for me became qemu monitor. See <https://nico.schottelius.org/blog/control-and-shutdown-qemu-kvm-vm-via-unix-socket/> for more details regarding flexible management guest by using qemu monitor.


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