Re: [libvirt] domain shutdown requests

When you shutdown a domain that is in PAUSED state, the shutdown will not take effect until you issue a resume cmd: # virsh suspend <domain_name> <domain_name> is now PAUSED # virsh shutdown <domain_name> <domain_name> does not shutdown, with the reason being that, for example in the case of a Linux Guest, the guest is not running and therefore there is no acpid running and able to process the shutdown request. Right? If now we issue a resume #virsh resume <domain_name> the guest initiates the (pending) shutdown (ie, acpid processes the pending request).

Is this the expected behavior? Shouldn't virsh do something like this when it issues a shutdown request? if (domain.state == PAUSED) resume(domain) shutdown(domain) If yes, then I guess this logic should go - into the cmdShutdown routine if we want to make it available to virsh only, or - inside the driver's domainShutdown fn if we want to make it available to any libvirt user. One more minor comment. As of now, "virsh list" (or 'virsh domstate <domain>') does not provide any way of knowing if - a domain is being shutdown or - a domain has a pending shutdown request (like in the example above). Would it make any sense to enhance the output of list/domstate , for example to show something like this when libvirt issues a shutdown to a running domain Id Name State ---------------------------------- 3 FC15-2 running (shutdown in progress) Or something like this when it issues a shutdown to a PAUSED domain? Id Name State ---------------------------------- 3 FC15-2 PAUSED (shutdown request pending)

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