getting ACPI shutdown to work?

[John Radley]

How do I ensure ACPI is working, so that the powerbutton will do a S5 shutdown?
Actually, FreeNas is a VM under Proxmox, so I want "qm shutdown NNN" to work.
I believe FreeNas (or FreeBSD) would need to accept anonymous shutdown request

 

[Ericloewe]

If your hypervisor doesn't support basic features as sending an ACPI command to a guest, you really should not be using it.

If I press the power button on the server that's sitting on my desk, it powers down gracefully. Same for IPMI access. So, you need to fix your hypervisor or get rid of it (the latter being the safer option).

 

[John Radley]

Thanks for your advice? How should FreeNas VM shutdown if the Proxmox server shuts down?

A night's sleep always helps in solving a problem.....
The ACPI was working, but the FreeNas VM was immediately rebooting. In fact any form of shutdown or halt was causing a reboot.
I could just see the shutdown messages in the console, and could see a Kernel panic during. Now that seems sensible - do a reboot if Kernel panics!

Switching over to "qemu64" processor type instead of "Default (kvm64)" has seemed to fix the problem. Shutdown is very quick now.
Wonder why - I guess that's a question for the Proxmox forum.

 

[m0nkey_]

The only virtualization platform where FreeNAS is somewhat supported is ESXI. But it's usually preferable to run FreeNAS bare metal.