Re: no quit on halt for linux 2.6.23 x86 guest

Luca Tettamanti
2007-10-29T16:44:05Z

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).

Luca