Re: no quit on halt for linux 2.6.23 x86 guest

Anthony Liguori
2007-10-29T17:47:07Z

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).
>

This would require CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=2001. In my kernel
config, it's set to 0 and my guests still don't shut off so I think
there's more to it than just this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Luca
>
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