Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Add monitor command for system_reboot

[Avi Kivity]

On 07/08/2009 05:10 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > Indeed.  This is what has kept me from applying this but I just can't
> > > think of any better solution.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > The drive behind implementing this feature is so that we can implement
> > > a proper virDomainReboot in libvirt.
> > >
> > >        
> > How does Xen hvm implement it?
> >      
>
> You have to install the Xen paravirt drivers, so Xen HVM handles graceful
> shutdown/reboot in the same way as pure Xen paravirt. They watch a flag
> in xenstore and invoke shutdown -r / -h according to the flag.
>    

What happens if the driver is not installed?  The guest just keeps 
going, right?

What's the libvirt motivation for the feature?

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