[libvirt] How does virt-manager send shutdown?

[Bryan Kearney]

Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>>> I added the following to my xml
>>>
>>>       <features>
>>>         <feature>
>>>                 <acpi/>
>>>         </feature>
>>>         </features>
>>>
>> One follow up question. Any reason that this should _not_ be the default 
>>   set up by the appliance-creator?
> 
> Generally, modern OS's won't work very well if you disable acpi.  The ability to
> shut it off is generally used for compatibility with older OS's, although there
> are other reasons to occasionally use it (you could workaround the recent KVM
> time drift problems by shutting off ACPI, for example).
> 
> So you should always enable acpi unless you have a good reason not to.

ok.. thanks.

Huff... can you put this into the appliance creator as the default?

--bk