Hello, when host server is shutting down, it's goot to shutdown also guests, not only kill them. Host shutdown can be touched by an admin, but also can be started by an UPS daemon or similar action. Then kill of guests is not a best solution. I have my own script, which can shutdown guest automatically: http://www.salstar.sk/pub/salpack/etc/rc.d/init.d/virt-shutdown You need to start this rc script after installation, otherwise it will not do anything. Another init script with save/restore ability is here: http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=124775655529836&w=4 I'm not using this so I don't know, if this will work well on Fedora. A good solution can also be, if libvirt init script can shutdown guests autoamtically. It starts them, when system is booting, but does not stop them. I know, that libvirt sometimes need to be restarted without touching guests, but you also can avoid this, if you shutdown guest only if one of: - current runlevel is 0 (halt) or 6 (reboot). You can get current runlevel by running: runlevel | cut -d" " -f2 - if "service libvirt shutdown" is called, which is not very systematic, but can work well Just please do not create a new package only for guest shutdowns. :-) I am not a member of this list, so please cc me. SAL