Hi, I just changed the item told by Malte. Will test the machine tonight. Thanks ;D ----- Att, Bruno Santana <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Malte Starostik <<a href="mailto:m-starostik@versanet.de">m-starostik@versanet.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Am Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2011, 18:37:13 schrieb Phil Meyer: <div class="im">> On 06/27/2011 07:13 AM, 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 > > If you walk up to a physical 2k3 system when no-one is logged in to the > console, and short press the power button, what happens? > > Nothing. > > If someone is logged in to the console, the short power press will be > received and an orderly shutdown begins. > > The same is true of Linux based systems with no power management > installed. A short power press does nothing. > > That is the crux of the problem. There is no way to 'guarantee' that > the operating system of any given VM will respond properly to apic or > acpi signals. They are 'software' dependent. </div>Right, but if the VM is configured properly, this is not so much of a problem. For 2k3 and presumably also 2k8 there's a trivial fix: enable the group policy option "Shutdown: Allow system to be shut down without having to log on" under "Computer Configuration" -> "Windows Settings" -> "Security Settings" -> "Local Policies" -> "Security Options" and the system will react to ACPI shutdown/reboot requests no matter if there is someone logged on or not. Kind regards, Malte <div><div></div><div class="h5"> _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list <a href="mailto:virt-tools-list@redhat.com">virt-tools-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>