On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/17/2015 02:26 AM, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: >> >> hello list, >> >> i have a running vm with win7. >> When i fire up an 'virsh shutdown win7' nothing happens. >> When i fire up a second the same command, then the win7 machine is >> shutting down. >> Why do i need to fire up this command twice? >> Any ideas? > > 'virsh shutdown' requires guest cooperation. In particular, if you have > not hooked up a guest agent, then all it can do is send an ACPI signal > into the guest, but it is up to the guest whether it shuts down on > receipt of that signal (and not all guests do). > > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > > > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users Being a bit late... From my experience, the windows guest does recognize ACPI signal when one of two conditions are met: the signal was sent *twice* in a short period, or you had issued C-A-D on the standard input before. I do not understand why the Microsoft did things exactly this way, but that`s how it works (or may work). _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
