On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 02:26:42AM +1100, Justin Clift wrote: > On 11/11/2010, at 1:22 AM, Santanu Das wrote: > > If I use "ShutDown" instead, it doesn't throw any errors in but doesn't > > shutdown the virtual machine either. What am I missing here? Thanks in > > advance. > > It sounds like your guests aren't running the ACPI daemon. > > The way that the "shutdown" command works, is that it sends some > kind of ACPI "shut down" signal to the guest. > > Works nicely for most things, but if the guest doesn't have > something listening for ACPI events (ie acpid on Linux), it'll just > ignore it.
Also: http://virt-tools.org/learning/start-vm-with-virt-manager/#stop Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list