On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:26:03AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/13/2011 12:56 AM, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: > > Hi > > For some reason recent libvirt code (0.8.3 and even before) the 'virsh > > shutdown <domain> ' is not effective . > > It issues an ok message by the domians remains in a runnning state . Only > > th e destroy works fine. > > > > Any idea ? > > 'virsh shutdown' is wired to cause qemu to send an ACPI shutdown signal > to the guest, which is more or less advisory. If the guest doesn't > react to that, then there's nothing that shutdown can do; virsh prints > the ok message if qemu successfully sent the ACPI signal, even if the > guest ignores the signal. Have you checked that your guests can react > to ACPI shutdown requests? Agreed with Eric, specifically you need <acpi/> in the <features> section of your guest XML and you need the guest OS configured to respond, in Linux guests that typically means running acpid. Dave -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list