Virtual server life cycle

Display the state of a defined virtual server including the reason with the virsh domstate --reason command.

Figure 1 shows the life cycle of a defined virtual server: States, their reasons, and state transitions which are caused by the virsh virtual server management commands. The state transitions shown in this figure do not comprise command options that you can use to further influence the state transition.
Figure 1. State-transition diagram of a virtual server including reasons
This graphic is explained in the tables of the following topics.