On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:08 PM, IMAP List Administration <li...@y42.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> some of you may remember a posting of mine here from March, 2012, in which I
> mentioned that the ACPI buttonpress event is not being correctly transmitted
> form a debian 6 host to an OpenBSD v5.1 guest.
>
> In the meantime I've installed a OBSD v5.2 system which exhibits exactly the
> same behavior -- the guest hangs (freezes) instantly and totally.
>
> I've seen similar posts in the past which yielded replies mostly to the effect
> of "OpenBSD's implementation is clean, Linux must be the bad guy".
>
> I'm not interested in assigning blame, or seeing it assigned. I'd simply like 
> to
> see the problem solved, somehow.
>
> Would a developer be willing to have a look, if I set up a v5.2 sandbox on the
> debian host?

I think that for start devs will be missing what type of
virtualization you're using on Debian, then it will be fine to see
complete dmesg from OpenBSD guest 5.2 and as well latest snapshot.

>
> cheers,
>
> Robert Urban
>
> --- original message ---
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get a v5.0 system newly installed in a VM running on Debian v6
> am64 (squeeze) to respond properly when I execute "virsh shutdown GUEST", 
> which
> apparently sends an ACPI power-button-press event to the guest.  I have acpi
> configured for the guest.
>
> Currently, when I run the command, the guest hangs totally.  All interactive
> sessions, including console are frozen, and the guest stops answering pings.
>
> It's not clear from the acpi(4) manpage what mechanism is/should be invoked 
> for
> this event, and what can be, or must be, configured for it to work.
>
> thanks,
>
> Robert Urban

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