Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#3603 closed enhancement
Request for Start in Paused Mode — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Anders Olsson | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | VM control | Version: | VirtualBox 2.1.4 |
| Keywords: | state pause | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
We use multiple VMs to build clusters. When saving states of the VM, it's quite easy for us to quickly pause all machines, and then save their individual states. But when starting the VMs we get trouble, because before we have started up all VMs the first one started gets network timeouts when looking for the other nodes. What would be needed is that the nodes gets paused as soon as they are restored, so that they can be resumed all at the same time.
We've tried to issue a VBoxManage controlvm <node> pause as soon as VBoxManage startvm has returned, but in the case of restoring from a state, the VM is not in a pauseable state after returning from VBoxMaange startvm <node>.
The feature we'd need is a 'pause' option to VBoxManage startvm, that would set the VM in a paused state as soon as it's possible to do so. Alternatively a way to make VBoxManage startvm only to return when the state 'running' has actually been reached.
