CentOS virt - Sep 2011 - CentOS-6 KVM virt-manager will not shutdown guest

I have a CentOS-6 guest VM configured on a CentOS-6 host. 
If I run virt-manager then I can start the guest VM but
once it is running I cannot get a shutdown command to have
effect.  To shutdown the running guest I either must
select Force Off from the Shut Down menu or open the guest
console and issue shutdown from the command line.

Is there some setting that is required to have Shut Down
have effect when issued from within virt-manager?  is this
a bug or a configuration problem?

When I issue the shutdown command to the guest then there
is no entry made in /var/log/messages.  It just has no
effect.  However, if I issue a reboot command from the
same menu then I get an error:

libvirtd: 16:43:51.027: error: VirLibConnError 450 : this
function is not supported by the connection driver:
virDominReboot

Am I to infer that Reboot and Shutdown options actually
are not available to use from the virt-manager Shut Down
menu, notwithstanding that they are present?

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Hi James,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-virt-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-
> bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 1:53 PM
> To: centos-virt at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-6 KVM virt-manager will not shutdown
guest
> 
> I have a CentOS-6 guest VM configured on a CentOS-6 host.
> If I run virt-manager then I can start the guest VM but once it is
running I
> cannot get a shutdown command to have effect.  To shutdown the running
> guest I either must select Force Off from the Shut Down menu or open
the
> guest console and issue shutdown from the command line.
> 
> Is there some setting that is required to have Shut Down have effect
when
> issued from within virt-manager?  is this a bug or a configuration
problem?
> 
> When I issue the shutdown command to the guest then there is no entry
> made in /var/log/messages.  It just has no effect.  However, if I
issue a
> reboot command from the same menu then I get an error:
> 
> libvirtd: 16:43:51.027: error: VirLibConnError 450 : this function is
not
> supported by the connection driver:
> virDominReboot
> 
> Am I to infer that Reboot and Shutdown options actually are not
available to
> use from the virt-manager Shut Down menu, notwithstanding that they
are
> present?
You need to have acpid installed.

In your KVM VM guest, run the following:

yum -y install acpid
service acpid start
chkconfig acpid on

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