Could you please try to use "Destroy" instead of "shutdown". The
default behavior is for shutdown to send an ACPI event to the machine so
that it gracefully shutdowns. In your case, I beleive that the vm was
not in a state that would have allowed it to be answering to such event
and "Destroy" is
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: virt-manager
After creating a new virtual machine, there was no cd-rom attached (I
filed another bug since I specified an .ISO during VM creation). Since
the HDD was empty, the system was unable to boot. Well enough so far.
Realizing that it didn't se
