Hi, I have the same problem, or at least seems related. I just opened an issue on https://sourceforge.net/p/kvm/bugs/555, if needed I can post here all the details too.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498035 Title: qemu hangs on shutdown or reboot (XP guest) Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: When I shut down or reboot my Windows XP guest, about half the time, it hangs at the point where it says "Windows is shutting down...". At that point qemu is using 100% of one host CPU, about 85% user, 15% system. (Core 2 Quad 2.66GHz) This is the command line I use to start qemu: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda winxp.img -k en-us -m 2048 -smp 2 -vnc :3100 -usbdevice tablet -boot c -enable-kvm & To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/498035/+subscriptions
