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From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
Subject: Re: Trouble shutting down vm on guest halt
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:56:45 +0100
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On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:38:52 +0200, Flemming Frandsen
<flemming.frandsen@stibo.com> wrote:
> I'm having some problems getting kvm to exit when the guest OS has
halted.
> 
> Specifically I'm running CentOS 5.2 as the guest on ubuntu 8.1.'
> I've noticed that 32 bit windows xp and 64 bit ubuntu 9.10 can power 
> down a vm as expected.
> 
> Any idea where I should look for documentation on how to tickle kvm ACPI 
> the right way from CentOS?

I have CentOS 5.3 on CentOS 5.3 and the shutdown on that works OK, so it
seems probable that this is a host/KVM side issue. What version of KVM are
you running? Oh, and you aren't running it with -no-acpi are you?

Gordan