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Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking MicroVMs. Create and manage the lifecycle of MicroVMs backed by containerd.
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Kill firecracker on shutdown if CtrlAltDel action did not work (ARM) #152

Closed yitsushi closed 2 years ago

yitsushi commented 2 years ago

Known issues and Limitations

The SendCtrlAltDel API request is not supported for aarch64 enabled microVMs.

Source: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker#known-issues-and-limitations

Read more: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main/docs/api_requests/actions.md#intel-and-amd-only-sendctrlaltdel

Suggested approach:

  1. Send CtrlAltDel action
  2. Wait maybe 1 second
  3. If it's still running, kill the process
richardcase commented 2 years ago

And some discussions around this: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/1370 https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/1534