On 4/12/2011 12:35 PM, Tobias Oberstein wrote:
I wanted to configure multiple VirtualBox VMs to startup
automatically at
boot time and generally be a nice citizen to the FreeBSD way of
starting up stuff.
Thanks for providing this, however there are several problems, some
of which you outlined in your post.
The canonical way to do what you're suggesting is to copy the
script so that you have one script per process you want to start,
each with a different
I've tried that first .. but for me it gets unwieldy when you need to
manage i.e. a dozen VMs
I don't see how it would be "unwieldy." The rc.conf stuff would be the
same, the only difference would be the number of rc.d scripts. What
problems does having multiple scripts cause for you?
2) when the system shuts down, it doesnt wait for "stop" to finish
graceful shutdown of VMs
?
The problem is, that
VBoxManage controlvm ${vboxvm_name} acpipowerbutton
does exit immediately.
It does not wait until the VM is actually powered down.
Is there i.e. a rc.d "hook" which allows me to make the shutdown
process wait for some condition (at least up to say a limit of 20s)?
By "shutdown process" are you referring to system shutdown? If so, what
you probably want to do is modify your _stop method to find the pid of
the vm and run wait_for_pids() on it. Reading through the comments in
/etc/rc.subr may be helpful for you in this regard.
Good luck,
Doug
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