On Thursday 25 March 2021 at 14:16:52, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote: > "virsh shutdown vmname" > > The immediate response was that it would shutdown the vm.... > > However, doing "virsh list --all" still showed the vm as "Running" no > matter how long I waited. > > It turns out the the vm needed to have the acpid package installed so that > the vm could get the shutdown signal.
Indeed - this is a known requirement for VMs (certainly under KVM, I don't know about Xen etc, but I would assume it also applies there). https://serverfault.com/questions/441204/kvm-qemu-guest-shutdown-problems Whether you consider it a shortcoming of Debian (and therefore Devuan) that acpid and acpid-support-base are not installed by default is up to you. My solution is that I've added these packages to the script I run immediately after creating a VM, to make sure it works the way I want it to. Antony. -- I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are _obviously_ no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no _obvious_ deficiencies. - C A R Hoare Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
