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5.18 Virtual Machine States
A virtual machine's state can be displayed in Virtual Machine Manager or by viewing
the results of the xm list command, which abbreviates the state using a single char-
acter.
• r - running - The virtual machine is currently running and consuming allocated
resources.
• b - blocked - The virtual machine's processor is not running and not able to run.
It is either waiting for I/O or has stopped working.
• p - paused - The virtual machine is paused. It does not interact with the hypervisor
but still maintains its allocated resources, such as memory.
• s - shutdown - The guest operating system is in the process of being shutdown,
rebooted, or suspended, and the virtual machine is being stopped.
• c - crashed - The virtual machine has crashed and is not running.
• d - dying - The virtual machine is in the process of shutting down or crashing.
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