* Joseph J VLcek (Joseph.Vlcek at Sun.COM) wrote: >>>> The requirement to shutdown the VM is really an ICT task which >>>>> you should add as part of your project. >>>> I would not necessarily call this a strict requirement. It could be >>>> done via ICT, or it could be done by having VirtualBox send a >>>> shutdown signal to the machine, after determining from progress >>>> reporting that the installation is complete. >> >> Ok, fair enough. We have to have VB send the shutdown signal somehow, >> right? Is there a way to tell the VB VM to do this via the api you will >> be using? > > If the API can not support it it would not be difficult to shutdown the > system once the install has completed. > > It could be accomplished a few different ways. > > - We could, as Sarah point out, have ICT do it. > - We could have an SMF service built into the image which could do it. > - bug 6556 "AI should provide an option for automatic reboot after an > install" could be expanded to, in addition to reboot, provide for > shutdown.
This last option is what I was envisioning. The AI client already provides for rebooting the client after installation. I merely want to extend that to allow for a shutdown instead of reboot. While we *could* force the VM to shutdown by instructing virtualbox to stop the VM, that's not ideal imo since it doesn't allow OpenSolaris to perform a clean shutdown. -- Glenn
