On 04/13/2011 12:56 AM, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: > Hi > For some reason recent libvirt code (0.8.3 and even before) the 'virsh > shutdown <domain> ' is not effective . > It issues an ok message by the domians remains in a runnning state . Only > th e destroy works fine. > > Any idea ? 'virsh shutdown' is wired to cause qemu to send an ACPI shutdown signal to the guest, which is more or less advisory. If the guest doesn't react to that, then there's nothing that shutdown can do; virsh prints the ok message if qemu successfully sent the ACPI signal, even if the guest ignores the signal. Have you checked that your guests can react to ACPI shutdown requests?