On 05/13/2011 11:39 AM, Laurent Léonard wrote: > Le vendredi 13 mai 2011 13:33:54, Bruno Lamps a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> As you may have noticed, I'm writing some simple backup scripts to my KVM >> vms. Because my production server runs libvirt 0.7.5, I'm not able to use >> virsh save, there's some sort of bug that make the VM to not always >> shutdown. >> So I do my backups shuting down the systems and then copying que raw image >> and the .xml file. To do so, I run "virsh shutdown VMname". For some >> reason, it doesn't works all the time, so my script currently waits 10 >> mintues to run "virsh destroy VMname", to be sure that the VM isn't >> running and then copy it's files. >> >> Why "virsh shutdown" isn't working for me everytime? Is there any VM log >> where I can discover the reason? =] > > "virsh shutdown" sends an ACPI shutdown call to the virtual machine. If it > never worked for one or more virtual machines, check that the guest systems > correctly handle ACPI shutdown calls. >
See also: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/FAQ#Why_doesn.27t_.27shutdown.27_doesn.27t_seem_to_work.3F - Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
