should have mentioned, apologies, suspend is the graceful 
shutdown of the guest I was thinking of.
Guest is win2k8, why would it not suspend - seems server 
versions of windows have to forced,
but yet I get - trying powercfg.exe - ".. firmware does not 
support suspend.." or similar,
which I guess is down to qemu/kernel

On 22/10/14 10:58, lejeczek wrote:
> hi everybody
>
> by an assumption I expected VM guests to be shut down/off 
> gracefully when the host is being powered down or 
> rebooted, but this does not seem to be the case so I wonder..
> Am I missing some libvirt components/packages ?
> Or my assumption is incorrect and guests have to be 
> shutdown manually?
> it's all SL 7 and guest are M$
>
> regards
> P.
>