Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Add monitor command for system_reboot

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Having the drivers installed though, still doesn't guarentee that the
> guest will honour the operation :-) Both graceful shutdown & reboot are
> just *requests* by the host admin, which cannot be expected to work
> all the time, it is just best effort. The admin can choose to forcably
> destroy a VM if it didn't honour their request to shutdown/reboot.

well... pv drivers or no pv drivers the guest should never be trusted
for anything.