[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#754445: libvirt does not correctly track and SIGTERM halted guests

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Fri Jul 11 14:23:50 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:33:12AM +0000, Michael D wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 1.2.4-1~bpo70+1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently using qemu-x86_64 version 2.0.0 (Debian
> 2.0.0+dfsg-4~bpo70+1) along with libvirt, both backported. When a normal
> QEMU guest is created, and then inside it "halt" is executed. The guest
> will shut down and cease processing, however libvirt will not recognize
> this and still mark the guest as running. The correct action is to send a
> SIGTERM to QEMU. This appears to occur correctly when running on Ubuntu so
> I am filing the bug against this package.

No it's not since you tell the quest OS to quit, not libvirt. KVM will
exit if the guest os will shutdown gracefully. If this isn't the case
for all you're guests you need to check there.
Cheers,
 -- Guido



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