virsh reboot command cannot reboot a kvm guest.
Issue
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virsh
reboot command can't reboot a kvm guest. It aborts with the following error messages.# virsh reboot guestvm error: Failed to reboot domain guestvm error: this function is not supported by the hypervisor: virDomainReboot
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Step to Reproduce:
# virsh start <domain-id> # virsh reboot <domain-id>
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 5.4 or later
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 or later
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kvm
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