Re: init scripts for KVM guests UPDATE!

[Charles Duffy <Charles_Duffy@messageone.com>]

To echo Michael a little here -- posting this on the KVM mailing list 
implies that it shouldn't have dependencies beyond KVM; as such, the 
libvirt mailing list would probably be a better place for these scripts.

That said -- no, there isn't an option within libvirt to save or 
gracefully shut down the guests on daemon (or host) shutdown. This is in 
part because in newer versions, the libvirt daemon can be shut down or 
restarted without also shutting down the guests -- presuming that the 
host is being shut down whenever the guest is terminated would be an 
unfortunate thing from the perspective of some users, so in my opinion a 
separate init script for controlling the guests (similar to what you're 
doing here) is probably the Right Thing.