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

[Michael D]

Yeah you are more or less correct. I think this is an upstream QEMU bug, as
QEMU is stopping the CPUs but not firing the SHUTDOWN event. I shall report
there.


On 12 July 2014 00:23, Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:

> 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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