[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#699932: Bug#699932: libvirt-bin: libvirt initscripts should also gracefully stop unmanaged guests

[Guido Günther]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 12:49:15AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 0.9.12-6
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> It seems the libvirt-guests init script gracefully stops only such guests
> that are managed by it (e.g. also start up that way on boot).
> 
> Would be nice, if on shutdown/reboot/etc. all running guest VMs are shutdown/saved/etc.
> by such an init script.

You mean for any hypervisor? Libvirt doesn't necessarily now that other
guests are running. How would we reliably detect this?
Cheers,
 -- Guido