Re: kvm guests are not able to restart

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> Luca wrote:
>   
>> On 9/3/07, Farkas Levente <lfarkas-lWVWdrzSO4GHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> hi,
>>> i've got a centos-5 x86_64 kvm-35 host system with one centos-5 i386 and
>>> one x86_64 guests. but none of the guest are able to restart. ie. i
>>> login to the guests and restart it. it start's as normal reboot, but
>>> after the last command (shuting down md device) it's do nothing, but in
>>> virt-manager i see 50% load on the guest. the biggest problem currently
>>> i can't find any way to restart any guest's other then shutdown and use
>>> virt-manager and restart them:-(
>>> what can be a problem? is it a known bug or it's just not working for me?
>>>       
>> It's known, but ATM there's no fix available. For more details see:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/5651/focus=6003
>> and following mails.
>>     
>
> is this really true? this means kvm are not usable any real environment
> since imho the feature to be able to reboot a server is essential!
>   

It's true unfortunately.  A fix will be available shortly.

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