Noobie needing help here. I am trying to run a hook script to put gpus to idle after vm shutdown. But with any script I put in /etc/libvert/hooks/qemu.d/, I get this error on vm startup. I chmod everything. Even if the script does nothing, still get this error. My qemu is version 9.2.3.

Script is

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $2 == "release" ]]
then
        bash /mnt/user/isos/scripts/nvidia_idle
fi

Edited August 2Aug 2 by kakashisensei

Maybe a permission issue?

What does this show:

ls -l /etc/libvirt/hooks/qemu.d

14 hours ago, Jorgen said:

ls -l /etc/libvirt/hooks/qemu.d

this is what i get

ls -l /etc/libvirt/hooks/qemu.d
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 98 Aug  2 01:17 gpuidle*

i am looking at this and it says i need to have folder of the vm name in qemu.d. once i put the script in vm name folder, i stop getting this error message and the vm starts.

the doc states i can put the script in /etc/libvirt/hooks/qemu.d/$vmname/release/end/ and it should execute after the vm has turned off and released resources. but it still isnt working when i exit the vm. i have chmod the scripts and have tested the scripts run fine when i manually run them in terminal.

I think unraid does it differently compared to the guide you're referring to.

See here for an older example: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/126883-running-a-script-after-shutting-down-a-vm/

Although, it makes sense to separate the scripts for different VMs with the "$vmname" path.

Sorry I'm out of my depth here, I was testing hooks for the same purpose a while back but can't remember if I got them working or not. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will come along and help.

Edited August 3Aug 3 by Jorgen