This is the same content like the man page qemud(8). See naming conventions for abbreviations.
qemud(8)
April 13, 2021
qemud is a wrapper for bulk operations with all registered virtual machines
qemud [ start | stop | status ]
qemud reads ETCDIR/regfile and inokes qemu-init always with the given action for
each registered virtual machine.
qemud is designed to be included into the init process of the system. Recommended place to do this
is the local part of the init system. Refer to the documentation of your system for information.
qemud accepts the start/stop commands (of a common sysvinit process).
The actions start and stop requires root privileges, because they perform a bulk action. The status could be invoked by all members of the group kvm.
start Start each registered virtual machine listed in ETCDIR/autostart . If ETCDIR/autostart
doesn't exists or the virtual machine is not listed, qemud returns 0 silently and does nothing.
Otherwise qemud invokes qemu-init to start the virtual machine.
stop Stop all currently running registered virtual machines. This is independant from the autostart
configuration. qemud does shutdown the virtual machines in ETCDIR/registered in
sequential order, one after another. This will may be subject to change to do it in parallel.
status List the short status line by line of all registered virtual machines in the order of
ETCDIR/registered . qemud calls qemud-reg to do this.
qemud uses ETCDIR/registered and ETCDIR/autostart . For details refer to
qemu-init(5). Both files will be read line sequential always.
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