[Qemu-devel] [Bug 823733] Re: Soloaris can't be poweroff

[Sledge Sulaweyo <sledge.sulaweyo@gmail.com>]

I just ran into the same issue on Arch with qemu 2.9.0 and as well Ubuntu qemu 2.8.something. Solaris 11 on powerdown shuts down to the point where it prompts you that it's now safe to power off the VM, works fine in vmware or virtualbox.
In a packer build at this point you just fail as the VM did not power down in time.

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Title:
  Soloaris can't be poweroff

Status in QEMU:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Thank you forgive my poor English.

  It seems KVM can’t poweroff solairs 10 or sloalrs 11 VM.
  I have created solaris 10 and 11 as usual. Everything in VM is running OK, but finally I use shell command ‘poweroff’ or ‘init 5’, the solaris VM (both 10 & 11) system could’t be poweroff but with promoting me the message: perss any key to reboot …..  ,I pressed any key in vnc client, solaris VM reboot immediately. Endless reboot loop above.

  the solaris 10 & 11 from oracle iso file name :
  sol-10-u9-ga-x86-dvd.iso
  sol-11-exp-201011-text-x86.iso

  the solaris 10 & 11 from oracle iso file name :
  sol-10-u9-ga-x86-dvd.iso
  sol-11-exp-201011-text-x86.iso

  1. On my real physical machine,the solaris can be poweroff
  2. On vmware ,the solaris can be poweroff
  3. On my real physical machine,I have try to disbale the ACPI opiton in BOIS, then the solaris can't be poweroff,Like the problem I have described above
  so ,I doubt the KVM has a little problem in ACPI 

  I have try the suggestion as follows, but I can’t solve the problem.
  7.2 Solaris reboot all the time on grub menu
  •	Run through the installer as usual 
  •	On completion and reboot, the VM will perpetually reboot. "Stop" the VM. 
  •	Start it up again, and immediately open a vnc console and select the Safe Boot from the options screen 
  •	When prompted if you want to try and recover the boot block, say yes 
  •	You should now have a Bourne terminal with your existing filesystem mounted on /a 
  •	Run /a/usr/bin/bash (my preferred shell) 
  •	export TERM=xterm 
  •	vi /a/boot/grub/menu.1st (editing the bootloader on your mounted filesystem), to add "kernel/unix" to the kernel options for the non-safe-mode boot. Ex : 
  Config File : /a/boot/grub/menu.lst 
  kernel$ /platform/i86pc/multiboot -B $ZFS-BOOTFS kernel/unix

  According to KVM requirements, I collected the following information:
  CPU model name
  model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3450  @ 2.67GHz

  kvm -version
  QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.3 (qemu-kvm-0.12.3), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

  Host kernel version
  Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS   2.6.32-25-server 

  What host kernel arch you are using (i386 or x86_64)
  X86_64

  Guest OS
  Solaris 10 and Solaris 11，both can not shutdown

  The qemu command line you are using to start the guest

  First, I used the command line as follows:
  kvm -m 1024 -drive file=solaris10.img,cache=writeback -net nic -net user -nographic -vnc :1
  then I try to use -no-kvm-irqchip or -no-kvm ,but the problem also appears!

  Secondly, have created and run solaris 10&11 by using Virsh, still solaris can't be poweroff, the XML file content is :
  <domain type='kvm'>
      <name>solairs</name>
      <uuid>85badf15-244d-4719-a2da-8c3de064137d</uuid>
      <memory>1677721</memory>
      <currentMemory>1677721</currentMemory>
      <vcpu>1</vcpu>
      <os>
      <type arch='i686' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type>
        <boot dev='hd'/>
     </os>
     <features>
      <acpi/>
      <apic/>
     </features>
    <clock offset='utc'/>
     <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
    <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
     <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
     <devices>
       <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator>
       <disk type='file' device='disk'>
        <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='writeback'/>
         <source file='/opt/GuestOS/solaris10.img'/>
         <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
       </disk>
      <interface type='bridge'>
        <mac address='00:0c:29:d0:36:c3'/>
        <source bridge='br1'/>
        <target dev='vnet0'/>
       </interface>
       <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
       <graphics type='vnc' port='5901' autoport='no' keymap='en-us'/>
      <video>
        <model type='vga' vram='65536' heads='1'/>
      </video>
    </devices>
    <seclabel type='dynamic' model='apparmor'>
      <label>libvirt-f36f5289-692e-6f1c-fe71-c6ed19453e2f</label>
      <imagelabel>libvirt-f36f5289-692e-6f1c-fe71-c6ed19453e2f</imagelabel>
    </seclabel>
   </domain>

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