On 26/09/2016 04:38, Srinivasan J wrote: > > I have Ubuntu 14.04.1 (ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso) guest running > in a KVM host. The host is running Ubuntu 16.04. I'm trying to find > out how Ubuntu 14.04.1 differentiates between virsh shutdown and virsh > reboot commands issued in the host. I see that in both cases the ACPI > event seen at the guest are exactly same. The guest however correctly > shuts down on issuing "virsh shutdown" and correctly reboots on > issuing "virsh reboot".
In the case of "virsh reboot", libvirt restarts the guest as soon as the shutdown is complete. Paolo
