Hi James, > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-virt-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-virt- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 1:53 PM > To: centos-virt@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: CentOS-6 KVM virt-manager will not shutdown guest > > I have a CentOS-6 guest VM configured on a CentOS-6 host. > If I run virt-manager then I can start the guest VM but once it is running I > cannot get a shutdown command to have effect. To shutdown the running > guest I either must select Force Off from the Shut Down menu or open the > guest console and issue shutdown from the command line. > > Is there some setting that is required to have Shut Down have effect when > issued from within virt-manager? is this a bug or a configuration problem? > > When I issue the shutdown command to the guest then there is no entry > made in /var/log/messages. It just has no effect. However, if I issue a > reboot command from the same menu then I get an error: > > libvirtd: 16:43:51.027: error: VirLibConnError 450 : this function is not > supported by the connection driver: > virDominReboot > > Am I to infer that Reboot and Shutdown options actually are not available to > use from the virt-manager Shut Down menu, notwithstanding that they are > present? You need to have acpid installed. In your KVM VM guest, run the following: yum -y install acpid service acpid start chkconfig acpid on -- Paul Norton Linux Network Consultant TechnoCom Corporation(tm) Direct: +1.760.644.5510 Email: pnorton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: www.technocom-wireless.com _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
