Right now, libvirt-guests gives awkward output. It's possible to force faster failure by setting /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests to use: ON_SHUTDOWN=shutdown PARALLEL_SHUTDOWN=0 SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT=1 ON_BOOT=ignore at which point, we see: $ service libvirt-guests restart Running guests on default URI: a, b, d, c Shutting down guests on default URI... Starting shutdown on guest: a Shutdown of guest a failed to complete in time.Starting shutdown on guest: b Shutdown of guest b failed to complete in time.Starting shutdown on guest: d Shutdown of guest d failed to complete in time.Starting shutdown on guest: c Shutdown of guest c failed to complete in time.libvirt-guests is configured not to start any guests on boot * tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in (shutdown_guest): Add missing newline. Reported off-list by Xuesong Zhang. --- tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in b/tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in index 1c9c46b..4f2e203 100644 --- a/tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in +++ b/tools/libvirt-guests.sh.in @@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ shutdown_guest() else eval_gettext "Shutdown of guest \$name complete." fi + echo fi }