Re: [fedora-virt] Windows XP KVM can't shutdown?

[Chris Lalancette <clalance redhat com>]

Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:59:45AM -0700, Dale Bewley wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 18:53 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>> I just installed a windows XP KVM virtual machine via
>>> fedora 11's virt-manager. All went well, but the KVM
>>> machine can't seem to shutdown, instead I get the
>>> Windows XP screen that says "it is now safe to
>>> power off".
>>>
>>> Is there some setting I need to tweak somewhere to enable
>>> XP to power off by itself?
>> You just need to turn on ACPI for your guest
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue184#Xen.2C_Windows.2C_and_ACPI
>> http://www.libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsFeatures
>>
>> I don't think you can do that in virt-manager, so see 'virsh help edit'.
> 
> It's not enough. You must reinstall your windows XP. Windows XP can't
> install ACPI as additional driver/software (described on some microsoft
> pages).
> 
> But this looks to be virt-manager/virt-install bug. When you select Windows
> XP, ACPI is turned off, then this does not work. Try to select Windows
> Vista, when installing your virtual machine, then ACPI will be turned on
> and poweroff works.
> 
> Can somebody fix this bug? I can't report it now. :(

As far as I can tell, it's already fixed in the upstream version of virtinst.
So if you need this on F-11, just open a BZ requesting a backport.

Incidentally, you do *not* need to re-install Windows.  There is a registry
tweak you can do inside Windows to flip it over to the ACPI HAL; unfortunately,
I don't know it offhand, but a google search will almost certainly turn it up.

-- 
Chris Lalancette