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. > > -- > *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** > James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca > Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca > 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 > Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 > Canada L8E 3C3 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Make sure you have acpid service running in vm.