Hibernation via paravirtualization

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a first virtual processor of a virtual machine (VM), an instruction from a guest operating system (OS) of the VM to invoke a sleep function of a hypervisor to hibernate the VM, the VM comprising the first virtual processor and a second virtual processor, wherein the hypervisor manages execution of the VM;

transmitting, by the first virtual processor of the VM, a request to the hypervisor to put the VM, including the first virtual processor and the second virtual processor, to sleep;

and

responsive to the hypervisor re-starting the first virtual processor and second virtual processor in response to a wake event, receiving, by the VM from the hypervisor, a signal that indicates that the VM has exited a stopped state, wherein the first virtual processor that sent the request to the hypervisor to put the VM to sleep is re-started before the second virtual processor is re-started.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the hypervisor stops the first virtual processor in response to the request.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the second virtual processor is stopped before the stopping of the first virtual processor.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein one or more virtual devices of the virtual machine are stopped by the hypervisor in response to the request, and wherein the one or more virtual devices are re-started by the hypervisor.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the hypervisor to:

save a state of the VM to a memory of a computer system associated with the hypervisor; and

load the state of the VM from the memory.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instruction to invoke the sleep function corresponds to a command of the guest OS of the VM.

7. An apparatus comprising:

a memory to store a virtual machine (VM); and

a processing device communicably coupled to the memory, the processing device to:

receive, by a first virtual processor of the VM, an instruction from a guest operating system (OS) of the VM to invoke a sleep function of a hypervisor to hibernate the VM, the VM comprising the first virtual processor and a second virtual processor, wherein the hypervisor manages execution of the VM;

transmit, by the first virtual processor of the VM, a request to the hypervisor to put the VM, including the first virtual processor and the second virtual processor, to sleep;

and

responsive to the hypervisor re-starting the first virtual processor and the second virtual processor in response to a wake event, receive, from the hypervisor, a signal that indicates that the VM has exited a stopped state, wherein the first virtual processor that sent the request to the hypervisor to put the VM to sleep is re-started before the second virtual processor is re-started.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the hypervisor stops the first virtual processor in response to the request.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein one or more virtual devices of the virtual machine are stopped by the hypervisor in response to the request, and wherein the one or more virtual devices are re-started by the hypervisor.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the hypervisor to:

save a state of the VM to the memory of the apparatus associated with the hypervisor; and

load the state of the VM from the memory.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the instruction to invoke the sleep function corresponds to a command of the guest OS of the VM.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having instructions stored therein, which when executed, cause a processing device to:

receive, by a first virtual processor of the VM, an instruction from a guest operation system (OS) of the VM to invoke a sleep function of a hypervisor to hibernate the VM, the VM comprising the first virtual processor and a second virtual processor, wherein the hypervisor manages execution of the VM;

transmit, by the first virtual processor of the VM, a request to the hypervisor to put the VM, including the first virtual processor and the second virtual processor, to sleep;

and

responsive to the hypervisor re-starting the first virtual processor and the second virtual processor in response to a wake event, receive, from the hypervisor, a signal that indicates that the VM has exited a stopped state, wherein the first virtual processor that sent the request to the hypervisor to put the VM to sleep is re-started before the second virtual processor is re-started.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the hypervisor stops the first virtual processor in response to the request.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the second virtual processor is stopped before the stopping of the first virtual processor.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein one or more virtual devices of the virtual machine are stopped by the hypervisor in response to the request, and wherein the one or more virtual devices are re-started by the hypervisor.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the hypervisor is to:

save a state of the VM to the memory of the apparatus associated with the hypervisor; and

load the state of the VM from the memory.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the instruction to invoke the sleep function corresponds to a command of the guest OS of the VM.