KVM / (ACPI) Shutdown?

highc · Aug 31, 2010, 12:31 PM

I have installed pfSense under KVM and libvirt - works well for my purposes.

The only issue I have is with shutting down pfSense remotely/automatically:

ACPI shutdown (virsh shutdown pfsense) does not yield any result
"ssh root@pfsense.domain shutdown -h now" just gives me the pfsense terminal menu, but does not seem to execute the shutdown

Is there any way to get a gentle shutdown working? "virsh destroy pfsense" works, but is not really nice, as it might corrupt things.

Thanks.

danswartz · Dec 17, 2010, 4:57 PM

I am having (I believe) the same issue. Not using xen, but proxmox (running pfsense with KVM.) I do not have the 'disable acpi' box checked for the VM. Any thoughts?

danswartz · Dec 17, 2010, 8:38 PM

Actually, I think I was having a different issue. kvm shutdown command totally ignored. This seems to be freebsd-related, not specifically pfsense. More specifically, freebsd is the victim - the bug is in the seabios used by kvm.

http://git.linuxtogo.org/?p=kevin/seabios.git;a=commit;h=50ecfa88d6a27abb873174903c9e09f989f46f1a

So, I guess I live with it until an update/fix. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth.