[PVE-User] shutdown -r in VZ guests != reboot

[Dietmar Maurer]

> When I do a shutdown -r in an OpenVZ guest, it goes down nicely, but
> the
> management system leaves it 'mounted' without it starting up again.
> This
> is no issue with KVM guests, but requires VZ guests request an
> administrator to do their reboots for them... is this supposed to be
> the
> case? Is there a workaround or some other option?
> 
> I did some quick searches around the Wiki but didn't see any references
> to this.

You just need to wait a few minutes (<5). There is a cron job which restarts the VMs.

- Dietmar