Hi
In SL6 /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guets defaulted to suspend the guests, so I changed it to shutdown guets with:
ON_BOOT=ignore
ON_SHUTDOWN=shutdown
PARALLEL_SHUTDOWN=6
SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT=90

It looks like SL7 has the same settings, but I haven't tried them yet.

Regards
Bill Maidment 
 
-----Original message-----
> From:Karel Lang AFD <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday 22nd October 2014 21:11
> To: lejeczek <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: libvirt guests graceful shutdown upon hosts powerdown/reboot
> 
> Hi,
> IMHO, the libvirt-guests init script which is part of libvirt-client rpm 
> package should take care of suspending the guests upon shutdown procedure?
> 
> 
> -- 
> *Karel Lang*
> 
> On 10/22/2014 11:58 AM, 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.
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> *Karel Lang*
> 
>