HA and poweroff inside VM

[gurubert]

When a VM is protected by HA and a poweroff runs inside the VM the VM is happily started again by the HA manager.

Is it possible to tell the HA manager from within the VM (via qemu-guest-agent maybe) that the VM should stay powered off?

 

[dietmar]

Is it possible to tell the HA manager from within the VM (via qemu-guest-agent maybe) that the VM should stay powered off?

No. IMHO, if it is allowed to turn off the VM, you should not enable HA.

 

[gurubert]

Would it be technically possible to implement this as a feature?

 

[dietmar]

Would it be technically possible to implement this as a feature?

I guess you can write a script which use the API to turn off the VM (and run the script on shutdown).

 

[spirit]

Couldn't it be possible to catch the SHUTDOWN event in qmp-event daemon and disable the HA ?

 

[gurubert]

you can write a script which use the API to turn off the VM (and run the script on shutdown).

That would require the user inside the VM to have access to the Proxmox API.