Steps: 1 virsh reboot guest1 --mode=acpi 2 virsh shutdown guest1 --mode=agent Expected result: As the SHUTDOWN job is after REBOOT, we expected the guest to be *shutoff*. Exacted result: After the 2 steps above, the guest got *rebooted*. The reason to this problem: 1 in qemuDomainReboot(mode acpi), it sets priv->fakeReboot to 1. 2 after shutdown/reboot, qemu monitor IO trigged qemuProcessHandleShutdown(), which finds that priv->fakeReboot is 1, and reboot the guest. Root Cause of the problem: After further look into the problem, We found that the design of acpi/agent shutdown/reboot seems a little chaotic. ----------------------------------- sheet1 who sets fakeReboot ----------------------------------- shutdown reboot acpi Y(0) Y(1) agent N N It's apparently, *acpi-mode* jobs set fakeReboot. ----------------------------------- sheet2 who needs to check fakeReboot(qemuProcessHandleShutdown()) ----------------------------------- shutdown reboot acpi Y Y agent *Y* *N* Things become a little odd here. only agent-mode reboot doesn't check fakeReboot. We can tell from the above 2 sheets, that they're not consistent. *Agent-mode shutdown checks fakeReboot(trigger by SHUTDOWN monitorIO event), while it didn't set it before.* The chaos is not caused by libvirtd, it's a systematic problem, including guest os and qemu. (guest os writes ACPI, triggers qemu, qemu then triggers libvirtd) Solution: A simple solution is to make the 1st sheet consistent to the 2nd sheet, which is: ----------------------------------- sheet3 who should set fakeReboot: ----------------------------------- shutdown reboot acpi Y(0) Y(1) agent *Y(0)* N ----------------------------------- we let agent-mode shutdown set fakeReboot to 0. Signed-off-by: Zhang Bo <oscar.zhangbo(a)huawei.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Wang Yufei <james.wangyufei(a)huawei.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index 7eb5a7d..c751dcf 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -1959,6 +1959,8 @@ static int qemuDomainShutdownFlags(virDomainPtr dom, unsigned int flags) goto endjob; } + qemuDomainSetFakeReboot(driver, vm, isReboot); + if (useAgent) { qemuDomainObjEnterAgent(vm); ret = qemuAgentShutdown(priv->agent, agentFlag); @@ -1970,7 +1972,6 @@ static int qemuDomainShutdownFlags(virDomainPtr dom, unsigned int flags) */ if (!useAgent || (ret < 0 && (acpiRequested || !flags))) { - qemuDomainSetFakeReboot(driver, vm, isReboot); /* Even if agent failed, we have to check if guest went away * by itself while our locks were down. */ -- 1.7.12.4