[SOLVED] UEFI/OVMF Debian shutdown

[Jonas S.]

I have successfully installed Debian with OVMF/UEFI bios. I can start the machine and shut it down from within the machine.
The only problem I have is that automated shutdowns don´t work. (shutdown from gui, or when shutting down the server)

I have the UEFI disk and use it to properly set the path for booting the UEFI image from the Debian installation.

Has anyone an idea whats wrong ? Is this behaviour known ?
(acpid is installed and enabled by default, installed ui is xfce, using the same installation with seabios everything works out of the box)

Best Regards
Jonas Stunkat

 

[tom]

I always you use qemu-guest-agent, try it.

See http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent

 

[talos]

I am really unhappy with OVMF. If you want to shutdown a OVMF VM without using the Operating System for example on installation failure, you have to kill the qemu process because shutdown/stop/reset is not working from Proxmox. Another issue is EFI Disk, if i attach an EFI disk, the system does not boot (something about initializing video console) and the VM hangs at 17% CPU load doing nothing.

 

[tom]

works for me. make sure that you enabled the qemu guest agent (configured and installed).

 

[Jonas S.]

Hm I thought guest agent was only really necessary for windows vm´s, although I tried with enabling it for debian just in case, guess I have to do more than just enable it in GUI ? I will report back.


Best Regards
Jonas Stunkat

 

[martin]

Hm I thought guest agent was only really necessary for windows vm´s, although I tried with enabling it for debian just in case, guess I have to do more than just enable it in GUI ? I will report back.


Best Regards
Jonas Stunkat

See http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent#Linux

 

[Jonas S.]

Works flawlessly thanks.