[virt-tools-list] Win2003 VMs not shuting down

[Bruno Lamps]

Yes, it is kvm. I'll setup a testing environment with newer packages, then.
This production environment uses official ubuntu 10 lts packages. =/

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> 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,
>
> 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.
>
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