Answers: <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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Body: <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>
  
Tags: <linux><virtualization>
Title: Pause/Suspend guest in KVM without virsh and libvirtd
UserDisplayName: user54
ThreadText: # 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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