[libvirt] How does virt-manager send shutdown?

[Bryan Kearney]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 01:22:43PM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> How does virt-manager send shutdown to guests? Does it depend on if you 
>> are running kvm or xen? I have been building images with acpid enabled 
>> and acpi=force on the command line. After upgrading to f9 and running 
>> kvm my images no longer respond to shutdown. Is there a tweak which I 
>> have missed?
> 
> virt-manager  just invokes the shutdown API in libvirt, which has different
> impls depending on the underlying hypervisor. In KVM case it invokes the
> QEMU 'system_shutdown' command, which then triggers an ACPI power button
> event in the guest. You need to make sure your guest has the <acpi/>
> feature enabled in its XML config of course, and that the kernel has 
> activated ACPI (may need the acpi=force param), and that acpid is running.
> IIRC certainly KVM versions have a bug wrt this causing it not to work
> 
> Daniel

I added the following to my xml

       <features>
         <feature>
                 <acpi/>
         </feature>
         </features>

and had acpi=force on my kernel line.. still no luck. I looked for bugs 
in bugzilla.redhat... saw none for kvm with acpi. Is there another to 
bug tool to look at?

-- bk