On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009, Arun Khan wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009, Vijay Kumar wrote:
> > File:/etc/inittab
> > - ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
> > + ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now
> >
> > And then use the following monitor command, to generate a
> > ctrl-alt-delete sequence, when the system has to be halted.
> >
> > sendkey ctrl-alt-delete
>
> This is something definitely worth exploring.  Thanks for the tip!

The following does the job beautifully and should be guest OS [1] 
independent!

echo "system_powerdown" | socat - UNIX-CONNECT:<[2]>

[1] tested with host openSUSE 11.1 and guestCentOS 5.3 KVMs - should 
work with other Linux.  No idea about Windows guest.

[2] socket file created with the -monitor option 

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Arun Khan
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