After the mentioned patch was applied, I noticed that shutting down a kvm guest from inside (i.e. poweroff) caused the guest to shutdown, but not removed from the list of active guests. DanB pointed out that the problem is that the virEventAddHandle() call in the qemu driver was asking to watch for 0 events, not HANGUP | ERROR as it should. Add these events so that shutdown works again. Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu_driver.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu_driver.c index 683fe20..996bfff 100644 --- a/src/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu_driver.c @@ -979,7 +979,8 @@ qemudOpenMonitorCommon(virConnectPtr conn, if (ret != 0) return ret; - if ((vm->monitorWatch = virEventAddHandle(vm->monitor, 0, + if ((vm->monitorWatch = virEventAddHandle(vm->monitor, + VIR_EVENT_HANDLE_HANGUP | VIR_EVENT_HANDLE_ERROR, qemudDispatchVMEvent, driver, NULL)) < 0) return -1;