Re: [libvirt] How does virt-manager send shutdown?

Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 01:22:43PM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote: >> How does virt-manager send shutdown to guests? Does it depend on if >> you are running kvm or xen? I have been building images with acpid >> enabled and acpi=force on the command line. After upgrading to f9 and >> running kvm my images no longer respond to shutdown. Is there a tweak >> which I have missed? > > virt-manager just invokes the shutdown API in libvirt, which has > different > impls depending on the underlying hypervisor. In KVM case it invokes the > QEMU 'system_shutdown' command, which then triggers an ACPI power button > event in the guest. You need to make sure your guest has the <acpi/> > feature enabled in its XML config of course, and that the kernel has > activated ACPI (may need the acpi=force param), and that acpid is > running. > IIRC certainly KVM versions have a bug wrt this causing it not to work > > Daniel I added the following to my xml <features> <feature> <acpi/> </feature> </features>