I would be overjoyed if someone could point me to a description of the behavior of qemu when generating the ACPI "power button press" event for the guest. And a further reference to a description of the standard that qemu adheres to (I presume) would be icing on the cake.
cheers, Rob Urban On 02/03/2014 06:44 PM, Robert Urban wrote: > Hello, > > it is not possible in the current version (5.4), and is not possible for many > previous versions, to shut down an OpenBSD guest using "virsh shutdown". The > guest freezes totally and must be destroyed afterwards. > > The host is a 64bit debian-6 system running Qemu version: > > QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.5 (qemu-kvm-0.12.5) > > The ACPI event is handled correctly when the uniprocessor kernel is running, > but > not when the MP kernel is running. > > Is there a Qemu developer that would be willing to have a dialog with an > OpenBSD > developer to try to understand, and possibly fix, this problem? If yes, please > get in touch with me. > > I will be happy to help in establishing the connection. > > cheers, > > Rob Urban >