On 11/18/10 16:35, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 11/18/2010 08:17 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> On 11/16/10 17:01, Michael Roth wrote: >> >>> RPC to initiate guest shutdown/reboot/powerdown >>> >> Do we really need this? After all those events can be passed down via >> ACPI? >> > > Reboot can't be passed by ACPI. This is why virDomainReboot is still > not functional in KVM. Every other hypervisor does something identical > to this series. > > And a hypervisor initiated shutdown ought to be treated differently than > an ACPI shutdown. Namely, it should correspond to an immediate shut > down vs. prompting the user. > > Not all OSes response to ACPI shutdown either FWIW.
Ok, fair enough. I just would like to avoid duplicating functionality if we don't have to. Cheers, Jes
