[PVE-User] VM shutdown with qemu-guest-agent installed and enabled does not work

[Jan Vlach]

Hi Stefan,

thank you for the links! Would dig deeper into this tomorrow.

Have a nice evening,
JV

> On 19. 1. 2023, at 20:02, Stefan Radman via pve-user <pve-user at lists.proxmox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Stefan Radman <stefan.radman at me.com <mailto:stefan.radman at me.com>>
> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] VM shutdown with qemu-guest-agent installed and enabled does not work
> Date: 19 January 2023 20:02:17 CET
> To: Proxmox VE user list <pve-user at lists.proxmox.com <mailto:pve-user at lists.proxmox.com>>
> 
> 
> Hi Jan
> 
> Here is an old forum post of someone who had the same problem on Alpine Linux.
> 
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/alpine-linux-kvm-wont-shutdown-with-qemu-guest-agent.49866/ <https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/alpine-linux-kvm-wont-shutdown-with-qemu-guest-agent.49866/>
> 
> A more bug report related to Debian Bullseye points into the same direction:
> dbus 
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004943 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004943>
> 
> The thread here has some concrete advice for debian bullseye.
> 
> https://dietpi.com/forum/t/qemu-guest-agent-shutdown/5898/6 <https://dietpi.com/forum/t/qemu-guest-agent-shutdown/5898/6>
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
>> On Jan 19, 2023, at 13:25, Jan Vlach <janus at volny.cz <mailto:janus at volny.cz>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi pve-users, 
>> 
>> I have fully patched proxmox 7.3 (non-subscription repo) with kernel 5.15.83-1-pve and I can't shutdown VMs from webUI. The task times out and is ignored in the VM.
>> 
>> on CLI:
>> Guest agent is enabled and running:
>> 
>> # qm agent 112 ping 
>> # qm agent 112 shutdown 
>> {
>>  "error" : {
>>     "class" : "GenericError",
>>     "desc" : "child process has failed to shutdown"
>>  }
>> }
>> 
>> versus disabled & rebooted: # here it could be shut down via ACPI
>> 
>> # qm agent 112 ping 
>> QEMU guest agent is not running
>> 
>> With qemu disabled, regardless if it's installed, ACPI event is sent into VM and shutdown procedure gets run. 
>> 
>> I've tested fully patched Debian Bullseye 11/amd64, Cisco Ironport appliances (freebsd-based) and plain FreeBSD13. 
>> 
>> So far, I've been installing guest agent to see the assigned IP address in summary and probably also for fs-freeze and fs-thaw during PBS backups.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I've found a post from 2018 describing my problem after my debugging at:https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/vm-shutdown-when-qemu-guest-agent-enabled.43404/ <https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/vm-shutdown-when-qemu-guest-agent-enabled.43404/> <https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/vm-shutdown-when-qemu-guest-agent-enabled.43404/ <https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/vm-shutdown-when-qemu-guest-agent-enabled.43404/>>
>> 
>> Does this work? Should this work? Has this ever been patched? Lots of water passed between today and 2018 ...
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> JV
>> 
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