From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Weidemann?= Subject: How to properly turn off guest VM on server shutdown? Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:33:21 +0100 Message-ID: <4B5C5A31.7060807@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:60643 "EHLO fmmailgate01.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751020Ab0AXOd0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:33:26 -0500 Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671591457FFED for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:33:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from [80.88.20.158] (helo=[192.168.3.1]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (WEB.DE 4.110 #314) id 1NZ3Wn-00086B-00 for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:33:25 +0100 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, is there a mechanism inside qemu-kvm that can shutdown the OS inside a=20 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=20 Windows system down before the process is killed. I know that VMware can shut down the guest OS when stopping the VMware=20 instance. Is there a similar feature in KVM? Regards Andr=E9