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From: Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: How to properly turn off guest VM on server shutdown?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:11:40 -0300
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On Sunday, 24 January 2010 15:33:21 +0100,
Andr=E9 Weidemann wrote:

> Hi,

Hi, Andr=E9.

> is there a mechanism inside qemu-kvm that can shutdown the OS inside a =
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> 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 =
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> Windows system down before the process is killed.
> I know that VMware can shut down the guest OS when stopping the VMware =
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> 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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