[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#774329: Bug#774329: libvirt-bin: Doesn't gracefully shutdown guests on upgrade restart

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 05:27:03PM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 1.2.9-7
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
> 
> If libvirt-bin has an upgrade requiring a restart it restarts and kills currently
> active guests without first gracefully shutting them down.  This can result in data
> loss due to damaged filesystems (hence the grave report).  This also happens with no
> warning so there is no opportunity to manually shutdown the clients.

Libvirt keeps qemu guests running and reattaches to them. Please
provide steps to reproduce.
 -- Guido