From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:06:31 +0200 Message-ID: <46E29E57.7070104@bppiac.hu> References: <46E28438.5000403@bppiac.hu> <68676e00709080535ie3f6e56l822041e307cc16e1@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Fedora/Linux Management Tools Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, centos-virt-IFYaIzF+flcdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, Fedora/Linux Management Tools To: Luca Return-path: In-Reply-To: <68676e00709080535ie3f6e56l822041e307cc16e1-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: et-mgmt-tools-bounces-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: et-mgmt-tools-bounces-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Luca wrote: > On 9/8/07, Farkas Levente wrote: >> kvm is not ready for production use for many reason: >> it can't reboot which imho a very basic feature, what's more can't even >> shutdown/poweroff. the centos i386 guest are not able to shutdown on the >> x86_64 host (strange the x86_64 centos and the i586 mandrake-9 are able >> to shutdown) or what's seems to be more likely it's a random think. > > Reboot failure is a regression; for shutdown you should enable APCI > with "acpi=force"; bochs BIOS doesn't have SMBIOS/DMI tables and Linux > may refuse to use ACPI without them (it depends on the configuration). when, where, how? is there any docs about it? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"