The QEMU guest agent "/usr/bin/qemu-ga" has some handy functions for controlling the guest, not least, shutdown/reboot and filesystem freeze/thaw. In Fedora 15/16 the semantics of the ACPI power button have been changed to suspend-to-RAM which breaks our current shutdown implementation. By adding support for the agent we gain a more predictable way to shutdown / reboot guests. NB: the code currently has the same "flaw" as the monitor, in so much as we wait forever for a guest agent reply. We need to add a timeout ability to the agent code -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list