[CentOS] Shutdown KVM guest not working

[Marius Vaitiekunas]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:47 PM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
> I am in the middle of a rather confusing situation.  At
> the moment I am unable to shutdown a KVM guest machine.
> Nor am I presently able to open a virt-manager session on
> the host.
>
> I am not exactly sure what has happened but the problem
> with the vm guest is that issuing a "virsh shutdown 1"
> from the root console has no effect.
>
> # virsh list
>  Id Name                          State
> --------------------------------------------
>  1 vmguest01....                 running
>
> # virsh shutdown 1
> Doamin 1 is being shutdown
>
> wait 5 minutes
>
> # virsh list
>  Id Name                          State
> --------------------------------------------
>  1 vmguest01....                 running
>
> How do I get this stopped?
>
> I have another problem with virt-manager as well.  But I
> will leave that for another message.
>
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Make sure you have acpid service running in vm.