no, that’s not how HA works today. When you log into a guest and issue “shutdown” we do not restart the VM under your hands. We can argue how it should or may work, but this is the defined behavior since the dawn of oVirt.

​AFAIK that's correct, we need to be able ​

​shutdown HA VM​

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​ without being it immediately restarted on different host. We want to restart HA VM only if host, where HA VM is running, is non-responsive.

we try to restart it in all other cases other than user initiated shutdown, e.g. a QEMU process crash on an otherwise-healthy host