[virt-tools-list] Why virsh shutdown does not work?

[Cole Robinson]

On 05/13/2011 11:39 AM, Laurent Léonard wrote:
> Le vendredi 13 mai 2011 13:33:54, Bruno Lamps a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> As you may have noticed, I'm writing some simple backup scripts to my KVM
>> vms. Because my production server runs libvirt 0.7.5, I'm not able to use
>> virsh save, there's some sort of bug that make the VM to not always
>> shutdown.
>> So I do my backups shuting down the systems and then copying que raw image
>> and the .xml file. To do so, I run "virsh shutdown VMname". For some
>> reason, it doesn't works all the time, so my script currently waits 10
>> mintues to run "virsh destroy VMname", to be sure that the VM isn't
>> running and then copy it's files.
>>
>> Why "virsh shutdown" isn't working for me everytime? Is there any VM log
>> where I can discover the reason? =]
> 
> "virsh shutdown" sends an ACPI shutdown call to the virtual machine. If it 
> never worked for one or more virtual machines, check that the guest systems 
> correctly handle ACPI shutdown calls.
> 

See also:

http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/FAQ#Why_doesn.27t_.27shutdown.27_doesn.27t_seem_to_work.3F

- Cole