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

My vote is for option 2 too On 04/08/2014 12:57 PM, Adam King wrote: > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ Kimchi-devel mailing list Kimchi-devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/kimchi-devel