The libvirt API has this to say regarding the shutdown command:<br><br>virDomainShutdown:<br>Shutdown a domain, the domain object is still usable there after but
the domain OS is being stopped. <b>Note that the guest OS may ignore the
request.</b><br><br>It is likely a guest OS issue. Which guest are you running? I had problems shutting down Windows guests, I had to resort to Destroy too in order to make sure the guest effectively guests shut down.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:37 PM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:paul.worner@thomsonreuters.com">paul.worner@thomsonreuters.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi<br>
For some reason recent libvirt code (0.8.3 and even before) the &#39;virsh<br>
shutdown &lt;domain&gt; &#39; is not effective .<br>
It issues an ok message but the  domians remains in a runnning state .<br>
Only th e destroy works fine.<br>
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Any idea ?<br>
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thanks<br>
<br>
Zvi Dubitzky<br>
<a href="mailto:Email%3Adubi@il.ibm.com">Email:dubi@il.ibm.com</a><br>
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Hi Zvi,<br>
<br>
I had to install acpid on ubuntu in order to shutdown via virsh.<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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