Hi In SL6 /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guets defaulted to suspend the guests, so I changed it to shutdown guets with: ON_BOOT=ignore ON_SHUTDOWN=shutdown PARALLEL_SHUTDOWN=6 SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT=90
It looks like SL7 has the same settings, but I haven't tried them yet. Regards Bill Maidment -----Original message----- > From:Karel Lang AFD <l...@afd.cz> > Sent: Wednesday 22nd October 2014 21:11 > To: lejeczek <pelj...@yahoo.co.uk>; scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov > Subject: Re: libvirt guests graceful shutdown upon hosts powerdown/reboot > > Hi, > IMHO, the libvirt-guests init script which is part of libvirt-client rpm > package should take care of suspending the guests upon shutdown procedure? > > > -- > *Karel Lang* > > On 10/22/2014 11:58 AM, lejeczek wrote: > > hi everybody > > > > by an assumption I expected VM guests to be shut down/off gracefully > > when the host is being powered down or rebooted, but this does not seem > > to be the case so I wonder.. > > Am I missing some libvirt components/packages ? > > Or my assumption is incorrect and guests have to be shutdown manually? > > it's all SL 7 and guest are M$ > > > > regards > > P. > > > > > -- > *Karel Lang* > >