> hi guys > > I have just two guest after which libvirt looks and when I shutdown > those guests: > > $ virsh shutdown $_dom > > that domain takes little time to power down, as expected one would > say(~20sec) But! I reboot the hosts and I have in my: > > /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests : > > ON_SHUTDOWN=shutdown > > PARALLEL_SHUTDOWN=1 > > SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT=300 How long does it take if you do this? systemctl stop libvirt-guests.service I have PARALLEL_SHUTDOWN=5 with currently four guests and it takes as you said ~20-30 seconds (those are non systemd guests). Regards, Simon