libvirt users - Oct 2014 - libvirt guests graceful shutdown upon hosts powerdown/reboot

hi everybody

by an assumption I expected VM guests to be shut down/off 
gracefully when the host is being powered down or rebooted, 
but this does not seem to be the case so I wonder..
Am I missing some libvirt components/packages ?
Or my assumption is incorrect and guests have to be shutdown 
manually?
it's all SL 7 and guest are M$

regards
P.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:58:39AM +0100, lejeczek
wrote:
> hi everybody
> 
> by an assumption I expected VM guests to be shut down/off gracefully when
> the host is being powered down or rebooted, but this does not seem to be
the
> case so I wonder..
> Am I missing some libvirt components/packages ?
> Or my assumption is incorrect and guests have to be shutdown manually?
> it's all SL 7 and guest are M$
The  libvirt-guests.service  systemd unit file is able to take care
of shutting down (or saving) guests at host shutdown.


Regards,
Daniel
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should have mentioned, apologies, suspend is the graceful 
shutdown of the guest I was thinking of.
Guest is win2k8, why would it not suspend?

On 22/10/14 10:58, lejeczek wrote:
> hi everybody
>
> by an assumption I expected VM guests to be shut down/off 
> gracefully when the host is being powered down or 
> rebooted, but this does not seem to be the case so I wonder..
> Am I missing some libvirt components/packages ?
> Or my assumption is incorrect and guests have to be 
> shutdown manually?
> it's all SL 7 and guest are M$
>
> regards
> P.
>
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seems server versions of windows have to forced,
but yet I get - trying powercfg.exe - ".. firmware does not 
support suspend.." or something similar,
which I guess is down to qemu/kernel

On 22/10/14 11:45, lejeczek wrote:
> should have mentioned, apologies, suspend is the graceful 
> shutdown of the guest I was thinking of.
> Guest is win2k8, why would it not suspend?
>
> On 22/10/14 10:58, lejeczek wrote:
>> hi everybody
>>
>> by an assumption I expected VM guests to be shut down/off 
>> gracefully when the host is being powered down or 
>> rebooted, but this does not seem to be the case so I 
>> wonder..
>> Am I missing some libvirt components/packages ?
>> Or my assumption is incorrect and guests have to be 
>> shutdown manually?
>> it's all SL 7 and guest are M$
>>
>> regards
>> P.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> libvirt-users mailing list
>> libvirt-users@redhat.com
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
>>
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