Hi All,
I tried to shutdown or reboot Guest machines created using KVM in linux machines.

It said that the Guest machine is shutting down , but the same is not happening. It doesnot throw any error also.

Please let me know whether any external agent/Tool is required to be installed in Guest machines to perform Shutdown/Reboot of guest machines through Virsh tool.

Note: We also tried with Virtual machine manager in RHEL 6.0 . But the results were same. ShutDown/Reboot option was available. But it doesnot work.

Thanks in advance,
Mohan S

Need more info:
what version of libvirt?
what OS you have in your guest?
does the guest OS support ACPI?

I'm using libvirt 0.9.1 and it works as expected with windows and slackware guests. I had to recompile the kernel on one single guest which used a debian based OS.

the shutdown tries to initiate an acpi shutdown. sometimes the guest OS would ignore, miss or pop up a question about this shutdown. Do you see anything in the guest console when initiating the shutdown?