Comment 4 for bug 1346741

Julie,

I'm stoned, it seems that Nova does not have an API to send an ACPI call to Power Off an instance. Or, "nova stop <server>" is broken.

I read this:

http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/nova_cli_stop_start.html

And this:

http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/novaclient_commands.html

And I an unable to figure out how to gracefully shutdown an Instance from Nova... It seems that OpenStack Nova is missing this one.

This is very odd... :-/

I found a command that is similar, called "shelve", which gracefully shuts down a Instance but, it also triggers a snapshot, which is not desired (when you just want to shut it down).

So, what can we do?!

Should I fill a bug report at Nova?

Thanks in advance!

Best,
Thiago