[CentOS] Shutdown CentOS VM when closing VMWare Workstation

2010-09-09 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I'm using CentOS 5.5 / 16bit as a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation and have installed the VMWare Tools by running vmware-install.pl and vmware-config-tools.pl but can't figure out how to make the VM shutdown, when I shutdown the Windows PC hosting it. Does anybody please have any

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown CentOS VM when closing VMWare Workstation

2010-09-09 Thread Brian Mathis
Auto shutdown is controlled by the VMware host, not inside the guest OS. I haven't done this in Workstation, but in VMware Server there are host options where you set the auto start/shutdown preferences. Upon shutdown, VMware will just send an ACPI shutdown signal to the VM, and it will act as if