Re: [Qemu-devel] what is needed to shutdown a guest (including Qemu process)?

[Jamie Lokier]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> I'm trying to run Debian Etch with Qemu 0.9.1, using ARM Versatile/PB 
> machine emulation, with a self-compiled 2.6.20 kernel.
> 
> Everything works fine, except that I can't shutdown the guest properly.
> 
> When I want to halt the guest system, it shutdowns just fine up to:
> 
>   Will now halt.
>   Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sda:
>   System halted.
> 
> But the qemu-system-arm process continues to run.
> 
> Is there a workaround to that? I would expect qemu process to exit as well.

Try poweroff instead of halt.

-- Jamie