[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#845964: Bug#845964: virt-manager: Guests get stuck during reboot

[Guido Günther]

control: tag -1 unreproducible

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:03:50AM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> Source: virt-manager
> Version: 1:1.4.0-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> there's a regression following a recent (say, last eight weeks) update
> of the packages that provide virtual guests in the kvm/libvirt/
> virt-manager stack: If a guest is to be rebooted, either by issuing the
> reboot command inside, or even by selecting "Force reset" from
> virt-manager's menu, the guest gets stuck in the (emulated) BIOS, and
> the icon in virt-manager's list of machine turns to the "Pause" symbol,
> the status word does the same.
> 
> This is independent from the guests kernel, and probably the easiest way
> to reproduce it was to use an Debian installer or a grml rescue system
> image, I've tried the latter with instant success.
> 
> Since I cannot reproduce this using bare qemu-system-x86_64, I assume
> the problem is in the upper layers.

I'm rebooting VMs fine here all the time. Providing the exact XML that
causes the regression for you might help to reproduce.
 -- Guido