Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-system-aarch64 doesn't close after guest executes halt -f

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 15:41, Shlomo Pongratz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running minimal Busybox/Linux guest on qemu-system-aarch64.
> When I write halt -f the quest finish
> / # halt -f
> [   36.385978] reboot: System halted
>
> But the qemu dosen't exit.
> In the monitor the result of info status is:
> (qemu) info status
> VM status: running
> (qemu)
>
> Is there a specific configuration that I need to add to the Linux
> {dot}config?
> Is this because the machine selection i.e. doesn't support it.
> Is this qemu-system-aarch64 issue?

You don't specify your command line. Different machines
behave in different ways. In general power-down is
implemented by "model the way it works on hardware",
so whether such a mechanism even exists depends on which
machine we're modelling.

thanks
-- PMM