VM fails to shut down

[TwoFour]

When I try to shut down a VM that is installing a Windows guest, it does not shut down or reset:



Not even after it completed installation and rebooted, when I am in the ESC BIOS:



How do we recover from a rogue guests running wild and refusing to shut down? This is dangerous.

 

[Daniel_Dog]

Did you check the qemu-agent box when you created the VM?

If so then guest-tools need to be installed for the shutdown option to work as it will do it via guest-tools. Try the stop option. (As it should work even if guest-tools is not installed but qemu-agent is checked.)

 

[Moayad]

Hi,

You have to install and enable the Qemu-Guest-Agent [0]


[0] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent

 

[TwoFour]

Did you check the qemu-agent box when you created the VM?

The guest is not installed yet. It is being installed. As in in progress.