From: Martin Kletzander Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:26:53 +0000 (+0200) Subject: docs: Document the real behaviour of suspend-to-{mem,disk} X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b9163679c5577b949e6536e4b8536b50d4a5efc8;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git docs: Document the real behaviour of suspend-to-{mem,disk} We get a question every now and then about why hibernation works when suspend-to-disk is disabled and similar. Let's hope that, by documenting the obvious more blatantly, people will get more informed. Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety --- diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in index 5bdcb569c4..5dcf2fedb0 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in @@ -1664,7 +1664,11 @@
These elements enable ('yes') or disable ('no') BIOS support for S3 (suspend-to-mem) and S4 (suspend-to-disk) ACPI sleep states. If nothing is specified, then the hypervisor will be - left with its default value.
+ left with its default value.
+ Note: This setting cannot prevent the guest OS from performing + a suspend as the guest OS itself can choose to circumvent the + unavailability of the sleep states (e.g. S4 by turning off + completely).

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