Hi Marcelo,
I'm trying to have a clean shutdown with reboot or power off
depending on what's called from VMtools. The problem is this
is for trying to virtualize an existing custom linux setup
with it's own shutdown programs and scripts that make the call
to power off or reboot.
I see that I should instead let vmtools make the power off
or reboot call after all power-off scripts are run.
Thanks,
James
On 28-Jun-10 13:36 Marcelo Vanzin wrote:
Hi James,
On 06/24/2010 07:22 PM, James wrote:
Of course I also see that I can just add custom user scripts to
the /etc/vmware-tools/scripts/poweroff-vm-default.d/ directory
and that is just what I'm doing now. The problem of course is that
if my script does the power off at the end the reboot doesn't happen,
and if my script just completes a shutdown and then halts the
power is not turned off.
What exactly are you trying to achieve here?
If you're just trying to run different things depending on whether power off
or
reboot is happening, you're better off using the OS's own
init/upstart/whatever
for it and not use open-vm-tools.
If you're tying to make sure the VM powers off when you shut down the VM from
the VMware UI, you may want to look at lib/system/systemLinux.c;
currently it executes shutdown -h to shut down the VM, but I've seen cases
where that doesn't really turn the power off (you'd need shutdown -P for
those).
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