On 3/20/25 10:57 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé via Devel wrote:
From: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
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or even map them to specific virtqueues similarly to the ``virtio-blk``
device allowing for better performance in certain scenarios.
+ * qemu: integrate support for VM shutdown on host shutdown
+
+ It is now possible to instruct the QEMU driver to automatically perform
+ managed save, graceful shutdown, or hard poweroff on running VMs, when a
+ host shutdown is requested. This feature is intended to eventually replace
+ usage of the libvirt-guests script. The new approach improves on the
+ libvirt-guests script, by proactively monitor logind for a signal that a
s/monitor/monitoring/ :-)
+ host shutdown has been requested. It will initiate the chosen action on
+ running guests immediately, allowing shutdown inhibitors to be released
+ sooner. The new solution is also able to iteratively try multiple actions
+ until one of them succeeeds in shutting down the VM.
+
+ Since it must be mutually exclusive with the libvirt-guests script, this
+ feature currently requires an manual opt-in through editting of the
+ /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf configuration file. The libvirt-guests script must
+ be disabled before doing this.
+
* **Improvements**
* **Bug fixes**
