[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] Shutdown VM graceful

[Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital]

+1 for option 2
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Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital <pvital at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center

On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 15:00 -0300, Aline Manera wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
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