Comment 9 for bug 368962

Power off via ACPI, if it powers off, power it back on again else
report 'refuse to respond to ACPI shutdown'.

Simples

On 25 April 2010 14:23, Soren Hansen <email address hidden> wrote:
> I really don't consider this High importance at all[1], and I doubt this
> will get fixed any time soon, if ever. There's simply no portable way
> (that I can think of, at least) to reboot a fully virtualised operating
> system, and until there is, such a method cannot be exposed through the
> libvirt API. Think of it this way: There's no way to walk up to a
> physical machine and reboot the operating system on there without
> knowing which operating system it's running and subsequently knowing
> specifically how to reboot said operating system (if said operating
> system even /has/ a mechanism for that). That's basically what you're
> asking libvirt/kvm to be able to do.
>
> [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance
>
> --
> Can't reboot kvm virtual machines using virsh
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368962
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