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Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification provides an open standard for device configuration and power management by the operating system.

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Can KVM suspend or shutdown guests automatically on host shutdown?

We have a CentOS 5.5 KVM host, running guests with various versions of CentOS and possibly other OSes later. We'd like to be able to either (a) automatically send an ACPI shutdown to all guests or (b) suspend all guests to disk, on host shutdown. Is…
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How to Restart Centos 7 KVM Host safely without corrupting guest VMs/data?

I want to have a KVM virtualized server with few VMs (with different Guest OSs) in production. Now when I want to install kernel/package updates for the host machine, how to restart the hypervisor without corrupting any VM data? (when there are some…
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ACPI shutdown does not always work on a Windows Server virtual machine

With virtualbox, I use VBoxManage controlvm "$VMNAME" acpipowerbutton to shut down a virtual server when the host is shutting down. This works well when I test, but not in real world cases (i.e. when the host reboots for updates, or even sometimes…
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Windows 2008 Server R2 turns itself off

I have a Windows 2008 R2 Server that switchs off on his own. and it does not look like a hardware problem since I can see in the log how all services are stopped and after: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power Date: …
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Can a properly wired reset switch fail to reboot a frozen system?

Context: We rent unmanaged server hardware. The hoster's web dashboard offers a "automatic hardware reset" command (next to a "send ctrl-alt-del" command), but it fails to reboot the machine when the Linux kernel has panicked. The hoster's support…
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Sleep/Suspend and WOL on FreeNAS

I am trying to figure out how to get FreeNAS 8 to sleep when inactive and, ideally, wake on lan activity (or, less ideally, wake on a WOL magic packet). However, as I've tried to search for information on how to do this, almost all discussions seem…
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System hangs while rebooting on Debian

I have Debian (Kernel 2.6.26-2-686) installed on two computers. On one of them it reboots quite finely but I am having following problem with rebooting Debian on my second computer. When i type reboot at the Linux prompt, following messages appear…
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LibVirt (QEMU) Shutting down from inside guest

I am currently running LibVirt with Qemu on Debian Wheezy: Versions: libvirtd (libvirt) 1.2.4 qemu-x86_64 version 2.0.0 (Debian 2.0.0+dfsg-4~bpo70+1), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard It's all working perfectly, including ACPI: virsh…
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How can i find the trigger of an acpi event?

My Server shutsdown . Evertime at midnight. The acpi Event power_button is triggered. at /etc/acpi/events/power_button power_button: # care about the power button event=button/power.* action=/usr/lib/acpid/power_button How can i find out the…
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watchdog watchdog0 watchdog did not stop

I have a computer that always has issues restarting/shutting down. I've installed many Linux distributions on it, including Debian 9 and VMware Photon OS, and I always have the same issue. When I restart, the machines does not actually restart, it…
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Shut down windows server 2012R2 KVM VM

Question: Does anyone know how I can get the Windows 2012R2 virtual machines to shutdown when sent the signal by the cluster resource manager? Background: I am running Windows 2012R2 servers as Virtual Machines (VMs) on KVM, using corosync/pacemaker…
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syslog full of APCI messages

I've got a Centos 7.2 desktop that is spamming the syslog server and also filling it's /var/log partition with constant messages : kernel: ACPI: _SB_.PWRB: ACPI_NOTIFY_DEVICE_WAKE event Can I disable ACPI messages / events or do I just need to…
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Is there any way to "save" a disconnected RDP sesion's state in a manner analogous to ACPI hibernate for a regular PC?

Related to: How often do you restart a heavily-utilized Windows Server 2008R2 Remote Desktop Server (VM)? If there are some disconnected user sessions on a Windows Server 2008R2 or Windows Server 2012R2 Remote Desktop Server, is there any way to…
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Discover source of ACPI interrupts

I have a set of linux boxes, running RHEL 5. All have the same set of packages installed, and the same hardware/BIOS/DRAC versions.I have ~3k ACPI interrupts a second on one CPU, on some, but not all machines. This indicates I can find what's…
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How to read the address of the XSDT table, as provided by `acpidump`?

I want to access Physical memory in BSD. acpidump -t XSDT > xsdt_dump.asl it is giving: /* RSD PTR: OEM=ALASKA, ACPI_Rev=2.0x (2) XSDT=0x9aae8070, length=36, cksum=164 */ /* XSDT: Length=92, Revision=1, Checksum=244, OEMID=ALASKA, OEM…
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