Oracle VM 3.1 Server automatically reboots after - stopping it

Question

When I try to stop my OVM 3.1 server, using shutdown, or init 0 the server stops, but automatically boots again....
Anyone run into the same problem?
Thanks for all your suggestions
Rob

Answer 1

dave wrote:
The OVM server? Yes OVM Server :)
I've not seen this before. It could be that the hardware doesn't support the poweroff signal from the OS. Although I'm not sure if it is that much of an issue, as you rarely turn off / on the OVM servers themselves. You can easily power it off if it does a reset not a poweroff.The reboots after "init 0" disappeared once after I added a third NIC to my box, and dedicated it for virtual machines
ie, my Windows 7 box, on which I setup the entire VM infrastructure using VirtualBox has 3 NICs. Two for the VM Server, and the third one for the VM Manager.
The second NIC with VM Server configured to handle the traffic from Virtual Machines, isolating the 1st NIC for all other VM Server traffic. No more rebooting with VM Server and always shuts down with a "init 0"
Hope this info is useful for few others out there
regards,
raj
Adding something I missed with last post
Following sequence is always used to shutdown the VM Server as my setup has NFS shares setup from VM Manager server itself
1. Shutdown VM Server first (Stops all heartbeats etc gracefully)
2. Stop OVMM service on VM Manager server
3. Shutdown VM Manager Server
Edited by: Raj Thampi on Aug 18, 2012 11:45 AM