How do I issue a "power off" through using virsh?

PeterSteele · 09-13-2012, 08:47 AM

When I use virt-manager, I can right-click on a VM and issue a "force off" command to power off the VM. This is essentially the same as a Linux "halt -p" command. I do not see a command for this provided by virsh. There is a shutdown command, but in my experience this does not in fact shut down the VM--I can still connect to the VM afterwards.

What's the solution?

PeterSteele · 09-13-2012, 08:52 AM

Found it. It appears that the virsh command "destroy" does what I want. Not exactly intuitive but it works...

dyasny · 09-13-2012, 01:02 PM

virsh shutdown will initiate a poweroff. destroy is the equivalent of pulling the power lead

PeterSteele · 09-13-2012, 03:14 PM

I my own tests, the shutdown command doesn't do anything. My VMs do not even shutdown, let alone power off. When issued, the command reports that the domain is being shutdown, but I've waited for extended periods and nothing happens.

Is there some configuration setting I need?

dyasny · 09-16-2012, 02:33 AM

virsh shutdown sends an ACPI shutdown to the guest. If you have no ACPI awareness in the guest, it will not work. Also, sometimes the guest gets the shutdown request and pops up an "are you sure?" messgae, which you can't see from the host, and it looks like shutdown didn't work