From: Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to properly turn off guest VM on server shutdown?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:11:40 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100124151140.GC24932@defiant.freesoftware> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5C5A31.7060807@web.de>
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On Sunday, 24 January 2010 15:33:21 +0100,
André Weidemann wrote:
> Hi,
Hi, André.
> is there a mechanism inside qemu-kvm that can shutdown the OS inside a
> VM when the qemu-kvm process receives a kill signal?
> I am running Windows7 Pro inside a VM and I would like kvm to shut the
> Windows system down before the process is killed.
> I know that VMware can shut down the guest OS when stopping the VMware
> instance. Is there a similar feature in KVM?
It is an interesting question :-)
I know that this can be done with libvirt. I had tested it with
GNU/Linux and it worked. I don't use Windows, so I cannot help you in
this sense.
But also it would interest to me to know if this can be done without
using libvirt.
Regards,
Daniel
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-24 14:33 How to properly turn off guest VM on server shutdown? André Weidemann
2010-01-24 15:11 ` Daniel Bareiro [this message]
2010-01-24 15:15 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-24 15:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-24 17:00 ` Daniel Bareiro
2010-01-24 17:16 ` Markus Breitländer
2010-01-26 13:46 ` Glennie Vignarajah
2010-01-26 14:01 ` Markus Breitländer
2010-01-26 15:55 ` Kenni Lund
2010-01-24 17:41 ` Avishay Traeger
2010-01-24 18:27 ` Daniel Bareiro
2010-01-24 18:45 ` Daniel Bareiro
2010-01-24 18:28 ` Jean-Philippe Menil
2010-01-24 20:07 ` Jernej Simončič
2010-01-25 18:46 ` Michael Tokarev
2010-01-25 19:09 ` Jan Kiszka
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