Re: [libvirt-users] Changing <on_reboot> in the domain XML file

Using virsh edit, I made the following change to the domain XML file: <on_reboot>destroy</on_reboot> But this appears to do nothing. The VM guest is Windows 10, and when directing it to reboot, it still reboots, instead of shutting off the VM. I was trying to work around some kind of a bug, somewhere, that started happening after updating to Fedora 26 and qemu 2.9, where a reboot throws my Windows 10 guests into some kind of a bizarre automatic recovery mode, which then claims that the hard drive is hosed. It's not, and a forced shutdown followed by a cold start boots everything back up like nothing has happened (which I didn't figure out until reinstalling one of the guests, sigh...), and everything is peachy once again. So, anyway, I was trying to figure out a way around it, and <on_reboot>destroy</on-reboot> seemed to be exactly what I was looking for. Perusing qemu's man page, it seems that this option should result in a -no-reboot option getting added to qemu's command line. But, looking at the actual command line, after starting the VM, it's nowhere to be seen. A bit more Google-fu found this: http://blog.vmsplice.net/2011/04/how-to-pass-qemu-command-line-options.html And I manually added a -no-reboot option to the domain XML file that way. And you know what? After doing that, telling Windows 10 to reboot simply shuts off the VM. Wonderful.