Running shutdown with mode agent on a shutoff domain gives cryptic error message: virsh # shutdown --mode agent gentoo error: Failed to shutdown domain gentoo error: Guest agent is not responding: QEMU guest agent is not connected After this patch, the error is more clear: virsh # shutdown --mode agent gentoo error: Failed to shutdown domain gentoo error: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running Reported-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index d173aa1..537797e 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -1989,21 +1989,21 @@ static int qemuDomainShutdownFlags(virDomainPtr dom, unsigned int flags) if (qemuDomainObjBeginJob(driver, vm, QEMU_JOB_MODIFY) < 0) goto cleanup; + if (!virDomainObjIsActive(vm)) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_INVALID, + "%s", _("domain is not running")); + goto endjob; + } + agentForced = agentRequested && !acpiRequested; if (!qemuDomainAgentAvailable(vm, agentForced)) { if (agentForced) goto endjob; useAgent = false; } - if (!virDomainObjIsActive(vm)) { - virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_INVALID, - "%s", _("domain is not running")); - goto endjob; - } - qemuDomainSetFakeReboot(driver, vm, isReboot); if (useAgent) { qemuDomainObjEnterAgent(vm); -- 2.3.6