Re: [Kimchi-devel] [RFC] Shutdown VM graceful

I would recommend option 2: "shutdown" and "power off" On 4/8/2014 11:21 AM, Sheldon wrote: > Currently, stopping guests in Kimchi is not graceful in the sense > that the guest becomes 'shut down' immediately. This could be be > problematic because guest file systems could become corrupted. > Perhaps a warning should be added before a guest is immediately > stopped or reset. > > kimchi can does not support shutdown by agent, so we can not > guarantee we can shutdown graceful. > User should install agent manully > > We can use acpi shutdown a VM. But not all guest os will shutdown the > VM even it receive acpi shutdown. > > So I have 2 proposal: > > 1. only one shutdown API and one shutdown button for UI. > when user click shutdown, the backend will try to shutdown VM by acpi. > if 1 minutes timeout, kimchi will destroy the VM forcefully. > > 2. support ACPI shutdown and destroy two APIs. support "force off" > and "shutdown" 2 buttons in UI. > "shutdown" means ACPI shutdown. but we can not guarantee it can > shutdown the VM. > If the user find the VM is not shutdown for some time, he can try to > force power off the VM > >