On 07/18/2016 02:37 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 18/07/16 08:31, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> What do yo have to do inside a Fedora 25 and Windows 7 Pro Virtual Machine
>> to get them to respond to virt-manager's shutdown command?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T
> I'm surprised Fedora 25 doesn't do that for you, I've used Fedora 20+
> and all of them have, AFAIR, responded to that.
>
> IIRC, you need to have a guest agent running on the guests to make this
> work flawlessly.  Otherwise you can use the ACPI mode, which simulates a
> hardware interrupt.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> virsh # help shutdown
>    NAME
>      shutdown - gracefully shutdown a domain
>
>    SYNOPSIS
>      shutdown <domain> [--mode <string>]
>
>    DESCRIPTION
>      Run shutdown in the target domain.
>
>    OPTIONS
>      [--domain] <string>  domain name, id or uuid
>      --mode <string>  shutdown mode: acpi|agent|initctl|signal|paravirt
>
>
> virsh #
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> For more info:
> <http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Qemu_guest_agent>
>
>

I think what is happening is that I am trying to shutdown
crashed machines and, of course, it wouldn't work.

I tested healthy machines and they do shutdown.

So, oh well.



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