Distinguishing between host and guest initiated VM shutdown

[Milan Zamazal]

"Daniel P. Berrange" <dan at berrange.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:35:22PM +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>
>> we have a problem in oVirt that highly available VMs don't restart after
>> host poweroff because Vdsm identifies the case as a user initiated
>> shutdown (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1800966).
>> 
>> When poweroff is run on the host, libvirt-guests service takes an
>> action.
>
> If oVirt is initiating a graceful host shutdown, 

I meant host shutdown not initiated by oVirt.

> then surely it already knows what VMs it has running on the host at
> that time, and so has enough info to restart them later.
>
>>            `virsh shutdown' is run on the VM, the guest OS is shut down
>> cleanly and libvirt reports a shutdown event with
>> VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_SHUTDOWN_GUEST detail.  Although it is a host initiated
>> shutdown actually.
>> 
>> Does libvirt provide any means to distinguish this case from a regular
>> user shutdown?
>
> A "virsh shutdown" merely triggers a request to the guest OS to start
> a guest initiated shutdown. As such it is indistinguishable from an
> administrator initiating the same thing inside the guest.

OK, so we will have to check on VM shutdown whether the host is in
shutdown or not ourselves.

Thank you for clarification,
Milan