poweroff doesn't power down debian sid vm

skymoo · Aug 22, 2007

In a Debian Sid VM a call to poweroff doesn't power down the VM and I need to stop the VM using the "Stop Virtual Machine" button. This looks like it could be an ACPI option as on boot the following messages are displayed:

FATAL: Error inserting fan (/lib/modules/2.6.22-1-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/fan.ko): No such device
WARNING: Error inserting processor (/lib/modules/2.6.22-1-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko): No such device
thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit
FATAL: Error inserting thermal (/lib/modules/2.6.22-1-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

the only thing mention in dmesg regarding ACPI is as follows:

ACPI: Core revision 20070126
ACPI: Exception (tbxface-0618): AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES, While loading namespace form ACPI tables [20070126]
ACPI: Unable to load the System Description Tables

doing a google search on this problem suggests adding the boot option acpi=force to my boot options, but this has no effect. On a call to powerdown I still get:

Will now halt.
Shutdown: hda
System halted.

Is this an OS issue or something to do with Parallels?

sandro · Aug 23, 2007

hi,
i think this is issue around Debian. Try to check it by installation as host system if possible.

sandro · Aug 23, 2007

also check maybe acpi=noacpi param passing to kernel on system loading

skymoo · Aug 23, 2007

sandro said:
also check maybe acpi=noacpi param passing to kernel on system loading

that has no effect, still get the same ACPI error messages on boot and in dmesg

skymoo · Aug 24, 2007

sandro said:
hi,
i think this is issue around Debian. Try to check it by installation as host system if possible.

Just installed on an old box and that powers down without issue, the problems not related to debian; its something to do with Parallels ACPI support

Any ideas?

Ynot · Aug 24, 2007

Parallels do not support ACPI under linux. ACPI is supported only for Windows Vista OS.

skymoo · Aug 24, 2007

Ynot said:
Parallels do not support ACPI under linux. ACPI is supported only for Windows Vista OS.

Does it support any kind of power management under linux, as I've just compiled a custom kernel with APM instead of ACPI and get the same shutdown problems?

On boot, with the APM kernel, I get the following displayed regarding APM:

apm: BIOS not found

Surely it is possible for a linux VM to power down under Parallels?

skymoo · Aug 30, 2007

skymoo said:
Surely it is possible for a linux VM to power down under Parallels?

Has anyone got a Debian Sid VM to power down under Parallels?

skymoo · Aug 31, 2007

I also have the same problem using Ubuntu Feisty, does any Linux VM power down?

hotblack · Aug 31, 2007

This is definitely an issue for all Debian based systems.

The question is, are there any plans to fix this, yet another Linux bug?

skymoo · Sep 4, 2007

hotblack said:
This is definitely an issue for all Debian based systems.

The question is, are there any plans to fix this, yet another Linux bug?

Looks like its another Linux bug as I can't get a Fedora Core 7 VM to powerdown either.

hotblack · Sep 4, 2007

Yeah, no support for ACPI outside of Vista so any Linux distro using ACPI is not going to have proper power management. Pretty serious bug and no sign (from posts here or my enquiries with support) that there is any intention whatsoever to fix it.