[Bug 267644] FreeBSD guests: 'halt -p' with QEMU hosts on Linux

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 05:22:46 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=267644

Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|FreeBSD guest running halt  |FreeBSD guests: 'halt -p'
                   |-p hangs on Linux client    |with QEMU hosts on Linux
             Status|New                         |Open
                 CC|                            |grahamperrin@freebsd.org,
                   |                            |virtualization@FreeBSD.org

--- Comment #1 from Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> ---
Side note: 13.0-RELEASE is no longer supported;
<https://www.freebsd.org/security/unsupported/>. 

From reboot(8) 
<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=reboot&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD>: 

>      -p      The system will turn off the power if it can.  If the power down 
>              action fails, the system will halt or reboot normally, depending on 
>              whether halt or reboot was called.


(In reply to Andrew Cagney from comment #0)

> …
> All buffers synced.
> Uptime: 37s
> uhub0: detached
> uhub1: detached


Re: <https://www.qemu.org/support/> I'll use Matrix to draw attention to your
report. 

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If I recall correctly, there's comparable behaviour – a visible end, not
followed by closure of the window to the guest – with FreeBSD guests in
VirtualBox hosted on FreeBSD, only if EFI is enabled at the guest level.

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