Bug#760923: systemd-sysv: system does not shut down in kvm

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Samuel,

Am 09.09.2014 10:43, schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> Package: systemd-sysv
> Version: 208-8
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> - Run kvm with a 10G disk, 1G RAM (though that probably doesn't matter)
> - Install Jessie from beta1 netinst installer, all default choices, no
> task installed.
> - boot it, log as root, run halt
> - KVM does not exit.
> - reboot, install sysvinit-core, run halt
> - KVM does exit.
> 
> This is very inconvenient when managing VMs, for instance when one wants
> to cleanly shut down a host running a lot of guests.

halt is not supposed to poweroff the machine, that sysvinit's halt did
that is a bug that was never fixed.

Please use poweroff if you want the machine to be turn off on shutdown.






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