shutting down kvm for creating a backup image

Question

I am trying to shutdown a kvm on a centos using virsh shutdown vm1 command. I checked to see if the ACPI feature is present in the specification xml using virsh dumpxml vm1 | grep -F acpi and it is. What am I missing here? I don't want to force shutdown the vm.

Answer 1

The acpid daemon process must be running in the VM guest or it will not respond to the request from the hypervisor.

From inside the guest:

service acpid status

should return the running acpid. If it does not try:

sudo yum install acpid
sudo chkconfig acpid on
sudo service acpid start