14.9. Shutting Down, Rebooting, and Forcing Shutdown of a Guest Virtual Machine
This section provides information about shutting down, rebooting, and forcing shutdown of a guest virtual machine.
14.9.1. Shutting Down a Guest Virtual Machine
Shut down a guest virtual machine using the
virsh shutdown
command:
# virsh shutdown{domain-id, domain-name or domain-uuid}
[--mode method]
You can control the behavior of the rebooting guest virtual machine by modifying the
on_shutdown
parameter in the guest virtual machine's configuration file.