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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