Yes, it is kvm. I'll setup a testing environment with newer packages, then. This production environment uses official ubuntu 10 lts packages. =/ <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com">rjones@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:13:57AM -0300, Bruno Lamps wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 VMs with windows 2003 in production. Twice a week, I backup these > machines, using simple crontab commands. I do something like this: > > 01 00 *** root virsh shutdown vm1 > 05 00 *** root virsh destroy vm1 > 08 00 *** root rsync vm1 path/ > 18 00 *** root virsh start vm1 > > I'm not using "virsh save" because the libvirt version running in my hosts > is a bit old (ubuntu 10 lts) and doesn't support this feature very well. So > I enabled acpi in every vm, and shutdown they before copying it's image > files. The command virsh destroy is just a security, to avoid copying a disk > image of a running VM. > > Analysing system logs (/var/log/syslog), virsh shutdown works perfectly in > every linux VM. But it does not work with both windows VMs. Inside the VMs, > I go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options > Advanced > When I > press the power button on my computer : Shut down. > > Should I configure something else in windows VMs? They're not obbeing to > virsh shutdown, they always only shutdown when virsh destroy command is > executed. > > Thanks in advance and sorry for the broken english, </div></div>This is KVM? It sounds like a bug in the hypervisor, so I would firstly try updating qemu/KVM to the latest upstream, and if that still doesn't work, then report a bug with the KVM developers. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat <a href="http://people.redhat.com/%7Erjones%0Avirt-df" target="_blank">http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df</a> lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. <a href="http://et.redhat.com/%7Erjones/virt-df/" target="_blank">http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/</a> </blockquote></div>