From: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao(a)gmail.com&gt; We have a few of senarios that libvirtd would invoke qemuProcessStop and leave a "shutting down" in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$DOMAIN.log. The shutoff reason showing in debug log is also very important for us to know why VM shutting down in domain log, as we seldom enable debug log of libvirtd. Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao(a)gmail.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c index b10b053..73e9271 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c @@ -5803,7 +5803,9 @@ void qemuProcessStop(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, virDomainObjBroadcast(vm); if ((timestamp = virTimeStringNow()) != NULL) { - qemuDomainLogAppendMessage(driver, vm, "%s: shutting down\n", timestamp); + qemuDomainLogAppendMessage(driver, vm, "%s: shutting down, reason=%s\n", + timestamp, + virDomainShutoffReasonTypeToString(reason)); VIR_FREE(timestamp); } -- 1.8.3.1