OMV as KVM Vm won't shutdown

mn124700 · Feb 17th 2020

Need a bit of help with OMV installed as a KVM guest. I'm noticing that the VM does not respond to power-off messages, even though acpid and pm-utils appear to be installed and acpid is running.

How do I get the VM to shutdown properly?

Thanks
Eric

donh · Feb 17th 2020

Did you try using apt install qemu-guest-agent?

mn124700 · Feb 19th 2020

Thanks for the tip. I tried that now, but still no response to shutdown message from libvirt.

Any other thoughts?
Eric

ryecoaaron · Feb 19th 2020

Quote from mn124700

I tried that now, but still no response to shutdown message from libvirt.

That is only half of the fix. You need to enable the guest agent for the VM.

mn124700 · Feb 20th 2020

Thanks for the help. I ran the following...

apt install qemu-guest-agent
systemctl start qemu-guest-agent

Rebooted, and I also verified that the GA is running (systemctl status qemu-guest-agent)

However, from the virt-manager gui, the guest won't respond to shutdown messages. I have to "force off".

What am I missing?
Thanks again,
Eric

ryecoaaron · Feb 20th 2020

Quote from mn124700

What am I missing?

You have to enable the guest agent on the kvm side (not in the guest). On proxmox, it is just a checkbox to enable it. With libvirt, it looks like you need to add a line to the config file - https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Qemu_guest_agent

Fossi · Feb 25th 2020

Works also with OMV 5 (Debian 10) on Proxmox (KVM). I Think there is one Point Missing:

apt install qemu-guest-agent
systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent
systemctl start qemu-guest-agent

So the guest-agent will be restartet at the next reboot. Here th OMV works fine: Is rebooting called from Proxmox and it's shutting down called from Proxmox. So it is working fine while restarting the whole host.

VG - Fossi

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