Windows VM's do not shut down properly when running as KVM Virtual Machine.
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 Service Pack
4
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack
Situation
Windows VirtualDomain cluster resources are not getting shut down
cleanly after windows display has gone to sleep.
The logs show the cluster will first try a graceful shutdown (IE: virsh shutdown <domain>) but after the cluster timeout, it issues a "forced" shutdown (virsh destroy <domain>) which is like a power button reset.
VirtualDomain(Win2012r2)[47054]: INFO: Issuing graceful shutdown request for domain winserver2012.
VirtualDomain(Win2012r2)[47054]: INFO: Issuing forced shutdown (destroy) request for domain winserver2012.
lrmd[5991]: notice: operation_finished: Win2012r2_stop_0:47054:stderr [ Domain winserver2012 destroyed ]
crmd[5994]: notice: process_lrm_event: Operation Win2012r2_stop_0: ok (node=rbrunt28, call=199, rc=0, cib-update=172, confirmed=true)
After the domain is started again, the Windows "Shutdown Event Tracker" will come up asking for reason computer was shut down unexpectedly.
The logs show the cluster will first try a graceful shutdown (IE: virsh shutdown <domain>) but after the cluster timeout, it issues a "forced" shutdown (virsh destroy <domain>) which is like a power button reset.
VirtualDomain(Win2012r2)[47054]: INFO: Issuing graceful shutdown request for domain winserver2012.
VirtualDomain(Win2012r2)[47054]: INFO: Issuing forced shutdown (destroy) request for domain winserver2012.
lrmd[5991]: notice: operation_finished: Win2012r2_stop_0:47054:stderr [ Domain winserver2012 destroyed ]
crmd[5994]: notice: process_lrm_event: Operation Win2012r2_stop_0: ok (node=rbrunt28, call=199, rc=0, cib-update=172, confirmed=true)
After the domain is started again, the Windows "Shutdown Event Tracker" will come up asking for reason computer was shut down unexpectedly.
Resolution
Need to change Windows power setting for 'display' to 'never'
sleep.
To change the power configuration:
Control Panel -> System and Security -> Power Options --> Click "Change plan Settings". Set "Turn off the display" to Never (default is 10 minutes)
To change the power configuration:
Control Panel -> System and Security -> Power Options --> Click "Change plan Settings". Set "Turn off the display" to Never (default is 10 minutes)
Cause
Additional Information
In testing I found that if you run "virsh shutdown <domain>"
once, it appears to wake it up, then if you run it again "virsh
shutdown <domain>" it appears to shut it down clean if done
before the display sleeps again.
Tested with Win2012r2 and Windows 7.
Cluster configuration:
primitive Win2012r2 VirtualDomain \
meta target-role=Stopped allow-migrate=true is-managed=true maintenance=false \
operations $id=Win2012r2-operations \
op migrate_from interval=0 timeout=120 \
op migrate_to interval=0 timeout=120 \
op monitor interval=10 timeout=30 trace_ra=1 \
params config="/images2/winserver2012.orig.xml" hypervisor="qemu:///system" migration_transport=ssh \
utilization cpu=2 hv_memory=1024
Windows Shutdown Event Tracker screenshot:
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Tested with Win2012r2 and Windows 7.
Cluster configuration:
primitive Win2012r2 VirtualDomain \
meta target-role=Stopped allow-migrate=true is-managed=true maintenance=false \
operations $id=Win2012r2-operations \
op migrate_from interval=0 timeout=120 \
op migrate_to interval=0 timeout=120 \
op monitor interval=10 timeout=30 trace_ra=1 \
params config="/images2/winserver2012.orig.xml" hypervisor="qemu:///system" migration_transport=ssh \
utilization cpu=2 hv_memory=1024
Windows Shutdown Event Tracker screenshot:
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- Document ID:7021066
- Creation Date: 06-Jul-2017
- Modified Date:03-Mar-2020
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