Chapter 6. Shutting down virtual machines

Shutting down a responsive VM

• If you are connected to the guest, use a shutdown command or a GUI element appropriate to the guest operating system.

  Note

  In some environments, such as in Linux guests that use the GNOME Desktop, using the GUI power button for suspending or hibernating the guest might instead shut down the VM.

• Alternatively, use the virsh shutdown command on the host:

  • If the VM is on a local host:

    # virsh shutdown demo-guest1
    Domain 'demo-guest1' is being shutdown

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  • If the VM is on a remote host, in this example 192.0.2.1:

    # virsh -c qemu+ssh://root@192.0.2.1/system shutdown demo-guest1
    
    root@192.0.2.1's password:
    Domain 'demo-guest1' is being shutdown

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Verification

• On the host, display the list of your VMs to see their status.

  # virsh list --all
  
   Id    Name                 State
  ------------------------------------------
   1     demo-guest1          shut off

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