[Xen-users] graceful windows guest shutdown/restart

[Nathan Goulding <ngoulding@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm having some trouble getting Windows Server 2008 R2 Std/Ent to consistently 
shutdown or restart gracefully. I have acpi enabled (it's required in later 
versions of Windows) and I'm even executing the shutdown from the guest OS 
itself. Inconsistently, but often enough to be consistent, the next time 
Windows boots it will say "Windows did not shut down properly, boot safe mode, 
normally, etc."

This is a real problem during installation as I'm installing Windows via 
sysprep'd images, and if a hard shutdown or restart occurs during the final 
configuration if Windows, it'll abort and say to start the installation over 
from scratch. This happens an unscientifically measured 40-50% of the time. 

Is it possible there's a race condition somewhere, or is there a "pause before 
destroy" setting I can enable somewhere?

I'm running Xen 4.1 on Ubuntu 11.04, and the sysprep'd images don't have the 
GPLPV drivers installed at the time of install.

Thanks,

Nathan
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