On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 13:55:25 -0600
Adam Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just an FYI at this time for anyone else searching on this problem. On the 
> other hand, feel free to share ideas if you have 'em.
> 
> OpenBSD 5.4 (RELEASE) does not appear to reliably receive ACPI signals 
> delivered by KVM.  Or, the version of kvm/qemu (1.4) that ships with 
> ProxmoxVE 3.1 (pve 3.1) fails to deliver ACPI shutdown signals to OpenBSD 
> reliably.  I'm not sure which.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  
> Limited testing shows that ACPI events fail after the VM has been up and 
> running for a while - not sure how long, yet.
> 
> I'm using virtio drivers for both network and disk, but limited testing so 
> far does not show that this makes any difference.
> 
> I do note that vio(4) networking in this setup occasionally stops 
> transmitting or receiving; switching back to em(4) resolves that particular 
> issue (so far).  When the vio(4) driver goes awry, the only immediate symptom 
> is that the VM stops sending and receiving packets.  Later, I discover that 
> afflicted VMs can no longer shut down cleanly, either... presumably a 
> KVM/OpenBSD interaction of some sort, I'm not pointing fingers in *any* 
> direction right now. (Especially since it could be something I've done, too.)
> 
> So far everything appears stable enough to run in production with the 
> exception of vio(4).  I have had to virtually yank the plug on a few VMs in 
> order to shut them down, however... back to the good 'ol days of SunOS 3: 
> "shutdown() { 'sync;sync;sync;halt -npq' }" ;-).
> 
According to this (Sorry, some parts in French), and also others have
mentioned it: http://trac.evolix.net/infogerance/wiki/HowtoKVM/OpenBSD

It seems that mpbios should be disabled. Have you tried that?

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