I have a CentOS-6 guest VM configured on a CentOS-6 host. If I run virt-manager then I can start the guest VM but once it is running I cannot get a shutdown command to have effect. To shutdown the running guest I either must select Force Off from the Shut Down menu or open the guest console and issue shutdown from the command line.
Is there some setting that is required to have Shut Down have effect when issued from within virt-manager? is this a bug or a configuration problem?
When I issue the shutdown command to the guest then there is no entry made in /var/log/messages. It just has no effect. However, if I issue a reboot command from the same menu then I get an error:
libvirtd: 16:43:51.027: error: VirLibConnError 450 : this function is not supported by the connection driver: virDominReboot
Am I to infer that Reboot and Shutdown options actually are not available to use from the virt-manager Shut Down menu, notwithstanding that they are present?