On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 18:06, David Boyes wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:17:10AM -0400, Bob wrote: > > What is the easiest way to setup the Linux guests so that when VM > > shutsdown, the Linux guests under VM all shutdown cleanly also? > > Use the SYSVINIT code I announced. That's > exactly the kind of thing it's intended to do. > It already has a set of default behavior, and handles the dependencies > (eg, TCPIP won't shut down until all the Linux guests are down, > handles waiting for differing intervals if you know one or two machins > take longer than others, etc, etc.)
However, if your guests don't do CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN correctly, you will need to modify the per-guest-copy-of-SVM EXEC to use CP SEND to send commands to the console. Use "Diagrc(08,'SEND 'guest message)" rather than "'CP SEND 'guest message" because Linux is case-sensitive. Also, of course, bug your vendor to implement SIGNAL SHUTDOWN correctly. On a distribution where the kernel does support SIGNAL SHUTDOWN (like Debian) the stock SVM EXEC does the right thing out of the box. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
