On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:13:57AM -0300, Bruno Lamps wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 VMs with windows 2003 in production. Twice a week, I backup these > machines, using simple crontab commands. I do something like this: > > 01 00 *** root virsh shutdown vm1 > 05 00 *** root virsh destroy vm1 > 08 00 *** root rsync vm1 path/ > 18 00 *** root virsh start vm1 > > I'm not using "virsh save" because the libvirt version running in my hosts > is a bit old (ubuntu 10 lts) and doesn't support this feature very well. So > I enabled acpi in every vm, and shutdown they before copying it's image > files. The command virsh destroy is just a security, to avoid copying a disk > image of a running VM. > > Analysing system logs (/var/log/syslog), virsh shutdown works perfectly in > every linux VM. But it does not work with both windows VMs. Inside the VMs, > I go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options > Advanced > When I > press the power button on my computer : Shut down. > > Should I configure something else in windows VMs? They're not obbeing to > virsh shutdown, they always only shutdown when virsh destroy command is > executed. > > Thanks in advance and sorry for the broken english,
This is KVM? It sounds like a bug in the hypervisor, so I would firstly try updating qemu/KVM to the latest upstream, and if that still doesn't work, then report a bug with the KVM developers. 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 [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
