Guido Guenther wrote: > If the guest can't do that, it simply can't. You can then SIGTERM the > guest after a timeout. Note that even an acpi system might not be able > to shut down since it hangs on a network unmount or it ignores the ACPI > interrupt via kernel commandline or whatever. You can't ever expect a > system to shutdown cleanly, so you need the SIGTERM failsave anyway. > Have a look at e.g. domainShutdown() vs. domainDestroy() in libvirt. >
Agree, but should try a "quit" monitor command first. Signals are racy, like anything that deals with pids (qemu dies, another process is fork()ed with the same pid, libvirt kills it). -- Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
