Virsh shutdown

virsh shutdown VM_MACHINE_NAME
Domain VM_MACHINE_NAME is being shutdown

Following message will appear on VM_MACHINE_NAME journal:

Nov 12 16:24:25 VM_MACHINE_NAME systemd-logind[1035]: Power key pressed.
Nov 12 16:24:25 VM_MACHINE_NAME systemd-logind[1035]: Powering Off...

shutdown The domain is in the process of shutting down, i.e. the guest operating system has been notified and should be in the process of stopping its operations gracefully

virsh list
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 25     VM_NAME_2                      in shutdown

virsh shutdown VM_NAME_1
error: Failed to shutdown domain VM_NAME_1
error: Timed out during operation: cannot acquire state change lock (held by remoteDispatchDomainBlockJobAbort)
Temporary solution: 
 Try to restart libvirtd daemon.

See also

• virsh: Storage information, Connecting, Operations, Memory, Snapshots, Networking, CPU, release notes, virsh nodedev-list
• Changing VM running status operations: start, shutdown, destroy, reboot, reset, resume