Re: [PATCH] add acpi powerbutton support

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

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi Guido,
>
> [posting via gmane sucks, just re-enabled mail delivery in this account...]
>
>   

Much appreciated.

> Guido Guenther wrote:
>   
>> Hi Jan,
>> On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:40:06PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>     
>>> What about additionally listening on signals? If you run qemu from the
>>> console, you can then just press ctrl-c to shut the guest down (instead
>>>       
>> Catching ctrl-c sounds like a good idea but "ctrl-c, ctrl-c" should
>> probably kill qemu then, since the machine might have no acpid running -
>> in that case hitting ctrl-c would have no effect.
>>     
>
> Good idea.
>   

I'm worried about the 30+ second shutdown latency.  Is there precedent 
for SIGTERM or SIGINT requiring this long to take effect?

Maybe we should suspend the VM instead (using qemu suspend, not guest 
suspend).

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