[libvirt-users] virsh shutdown <domain> not fully working on win7 ?

[Eric Blake]

On 04/17/2015 02:26 AM, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote:
> 
> hello list,
> 
> i have a running vm with win7.
> When i fire up an 'virsh shutdown win7' nothing happens.
> When i fire up a second the same command, then the win7 machine is
> shutting down.
> Why do i need to fire up this command twice?
> Any ideas?

'virsh shutdown' requires guest cooperation. In particular, if you have
not hooked up a guest agent, then all it can do is send an ACPI signal
into the guest, but it is up to the guest whether it shuts down on
receipt of that signal (and not all guests do).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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