[PVE-User] Shutting down Windows 10, 2016 and 2019 VMs

[Saint Michael]

Wrong: I did not get the information from this list, even a post in the
support forum that lasted 24 hours and nobody had the answer, that includes
Proxmox engineers. I was astounded that nobody had any idea about what I
was going through. The list offered as a solution in the forum, is
incomplete,
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/windows-vm-fails-to-shutdown-from-proxmox-web.54233/#post-249883

By the way, somebody should fix it.
I got the solution from Redhat.


On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 6:21 PM Mark Adams <mark at openvs.co.uk> wrote:

> So the appropriate thing for you to do now is apologise about your rude
> list post and say thanks for the link that told you how to configure it
> correctly!
>
> Regards
>
> On Mon, 13 May 2019, 23:12 Saint Michael, <venefax at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > when I did this,
> >  qm shutdown 104
> > the command was ignored. The VM had the qemu-agent installed. It turned
> out
> > that is not enough, you need to install the virtio-serial driver.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 5:41 PM LHProjects Bugs Dump <
> > bugs+proxmoxlist at lhpmail.us> <bugs+proxmoxlist at lhpmail.us> wrote:
> >
> > > What do you mean by shutdown? I've had Windows Server 2019 with
> > > guest-agent, it suppose to work? No VMs I use with 'shutdown' ever
> > worked?
> > >
> > > On 5/13/19 9:10 AM, Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I can confirm that this is working here with Windows 10 and 2016.
> > > >
> > > > However, the guest agent from the latest stable VirtIO ISO is *not*
> the
> > > > latest one. You may need the version from
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-qemu-ga/
> > > >
> > > > Bye,
> > > >
> > > > Andreas
> > > >
> > > > Am 13.05.19 um 14:51 schrieb Mark Adams:
> > > >> I haven't tried 2019 as yet, but windows 10 and 2016 work fine for
> me.
> > > >>
> > > >> Make sure your following this correctly!
> > > >> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent
> > > >>
> > > >> Regards
> > > >>
> > > >> On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 12:52, Saint Michael <venefax at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> I have not been able to shut down from Proxmox a Windows VM from
> any
> > > >>> version after W2012, and that is a critical issue. If you need to
> > > reboot a
> > > >>> server and have dozens of Windows virtual machines, it takes a long
> > > time
> > > >>> for a user to login to each VM and shut it down.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Is there is a way to do this? The documentation provided in
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > >
> >
> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_2012_guest_best_practices#Shutdown_Guest_From_Web_UI
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> is useless, it refers to a version of Windows that has largely
> > > disappeared
> > > >>> from datacenters.
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