Re: [Xen-devel] ACPI shutdown unreliable with win7?

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 29.05.15 at 14:54, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 10:08 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> If win7 doesn't shutdown given a power button request I'd be more
>> inclined to remove the setting in osstest for those flights and let
>> guest-stop go back to being never pass than to start making such changes
>> to the VM config which I think would probably break the preceding
>> suspend and migration tests (which aren't completely reliable, but are
>> far more so than this shutdown one).
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas here or shall I propose:

Unless we have a way to make an adjustment inside the guest for the
power button to gain "shutdown" meaning, I think there's no alternative
to the change below.

Jan

> -----8>--------------
> 
> From 2d1b814e65676c3cf56ce2e569491953607f53f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 13:51:33 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Turn off acpi_shutdown for windows 7
> 
> As described in <1432284841.10746.136.camel@xxxxxxxxxx> /
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-05/msg03016.html 
> Windows 7 does not appear to reliably actually shutdown when asked to
> via the ACPI power button.
> 
> Once this patch is applied some force pushes will likely be needed in
> order for this to not appear as a regression.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Alternatively could make it an allowed/non-blocking failure?
> ---
>  make-flight | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/make-flight b/make-flight
> index 8a1fceb..5120891 100755
> --- a/make-flight
> +++ b/make-flight
> @@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ do_hvm_win7_x64_tests () {
>    job_create_test test-$xenarch$kern-$dom0arch-xl$qemuu_suffix-win7-amd64 \
>              test-win xl $xenarch $dom0arch $qemuu_runvar \
>              win_image=win7-x64.iso \
> -            win_acpi_shutdown=true \
>              all_hostflags=$most_hostflags,hvm
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.1.4




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