Re: no quit on halt for linux 2.6.23 x86 guest

Avi Kivity
2007-10-30T03:36:56Z

Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> On 10/29/07, Denys Duchier <denys.duchier-7Gpg/I2gjxJXke3fktIsHg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> qemu doesn't quit (no poweroff?) on halt for linux 2.6.23 x86 guests (confirmed
>> by danieldg on irc), but it works for 64bit guests and it works for linux 2.6.22
>> x86 guests. I tried kvm-45 and kvm-49. -no-kvm does not help.
>>
>
> Try acpi=force on the kernel command line (guest). QEmu doesn't expose
> a DMI block and Linux guests usually don't enable ACPI since they're
> unable to check BIOS year (all BIOSes shipped before 2001 are
> blacklisted because they tend to be very broken).
>

I think Xen have a dmi block that fixes this. If someone wants to
borrow it for kvm, you know where to send patches...

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