This has been fixed upstream as much as is possible:
> 'shutdown' requests an ACPI shutdown from qemu/kvm. If ACPI isn't
> enabled in the guest, I don't know what the behavior is at the
> qemu level, but libvirt/virt-manager does nothing differently.
>
> Force Poweroff in current upstream maps to Destroy: it's just more
> clearly worded.
I would presume then, that when you're running Windows XP w/o ACPI
(because otherwise it burns 100% of the CPU), it would just do a hard
power off. The real fix for that is to figure out what makes KVM +
Windows XP + ACPI suck up 100% CPU.
** Changed in: virt-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Committed
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VM right-click menu shutdown issues
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251063
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