Hi Adeodato, On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 07:40:37PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: [..snip..] > Well, I get that “Shut down” sends an ACPI event, and that the guest > needs ACPI for that to be caught and handled. However, it’s not *that* > that I want: I want that when I select Start -> Turn off computer, and > the guest operating systems shuts down, KVM detects that and shuts down > the VM by itself. I understand that. KVM detects that (at least as it does for my linux guestes) but my assumption was that windows didn't actually shut down but only spinned due to lack of acpi support.
> Maybe ACPI in the guest is needed for that as well, so I went ahead and Yes, thats need AFAIK, that why in pointed to the KB. > tried to follow the above KB. It didn’t end up being very useful: the > HAL subsystem chosen by Windows was “MPS Uniprocessor PC”, with the > other two options being “Standard PC” and “MPS Multiprocessor PC”. I > selected “Standard PC” and rebooted, but it did not help. > > None of the other steps helped, either (for example, in Step #1, I have > no APM tab in the Power control configuration dialog). > > Any more ideas or things I should try? No sorry. I don't have any windows xp (let alone a license for it) to reproduce the problem here either. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
