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From: extmaillist@linuxbox.cz
To: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz>
Subject: Re: initiating linux guest shutdown from host
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:32:44 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0804231120300.1192@linuxbox.linuxbox.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68676e00804230218n6912e86ap1b419d4691f95a0@mail.gmail.com>





On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Luca Tettamanti wrote:

> libvirt sends "system_powerdown" to the monitor; is ACPI is enabled
> then the guest sees the event but it's free to ignore it (it's the
> same as pressing the power button on a real machine: the OS sees the
> event and may start the shutdown, ask the user what to do, ignore it,
> etc.); e.g. the default ACPI script of the debian stops the desktop
> manager if it's running but doesn't shut down the machine. If the ACPI
> daemon is not running in the guest then the event is lost...
>
> Luca
>
>

Hi Luca,
thanks for the answer. Well, then it works as I expected. I already tried 
starting acpid in debug mode, but system doesn't seem to receive any 
event, although according to dmesg, ACPI itself seems to work (and I can 
poweroff from the guest)

n.


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-23  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-23  8:40 initiating linux guest shutdown from host extmaillist
2008-04-23  9:18 ` Luca Tettamanti
2008-04-23  9:32   ` extmaillist [this message]
2008-04-23 10:08     ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-23 10:20       ` extmaillist
2008-04-23 10:22         ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-23 11:20           ` extmaillist

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