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From: Bernhard Held <bheld@mgpi.de>
Subject: Re: Question about shutting down Guest KVM during HOST OS shutdown
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:13:20 +0100
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Hi Arun!

> send_cmd() {
>         QEMU_MONITOR_COMMAND=$1
>         echo "${QEMU_MONITOR_COMMAND}" | socat - UNIX-CONNECT:${FILE_MONITOR}
> }
> 
> which sends the "exit" command to the qemu process via a socket file.
Just send "system_powerdown", and your guest will receive an ACPI shutdown request.

Bernhard