Cannot shutdown Windows or Linux guests...

[verulian]

I'm having a terrible time with Proxmox not seemingly being able to shut down Windows (10 and Server 2012 & R2) and Linux (CentOS 6.10) guests. I'm not even sure where to start in terms of isolating where the problem might be. What should I do to ascertain what the problem here is?

 

[danielb]

Have you enabled the qemu agent option ? If yes, you need to install the agent in the guests so they can shut down cleanly

 

[verulian]

Yes, but how can I test this as a sanity check? (I do see, by the way `qemu-ga` running on Windows Server 2012 R2.)

 

[danielb]

Check on the wiki. There's an agent pong command to check it's working. If you can't have the agent working just disable the agent option so proxmox send a simple acpi signal.