Logging off seems like a pretty good signal. :-) You can put any CP command you want in the VMPOFF, so you could use MSG or SMSG to send a
signal back to a shutdown SVM, which could wait until all guests have reported in before it issues the real CP SHUTDOWN. Brian Nielsen On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:55:12 -0600, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My current linux setup works just fine without adding the VMPOFF=LOGOF F. If >it is DISCONNECTED when SIGNAL SHUTDOWN arrives, it shuts down, loads th at >disable wait PSW and CP logs it off. When I am logged onto it and use th e >CLASS G version of SIGNAL SHUTDOWN, linux shuts down, loads the disabled >wait and then I get to do what I want with the virtual machine without C P >logging me off. > >What I wanted to know was is there a better way to signal CP that the >shutdown processing has been completed besides a CP STORE PSW ? > >/Tom Kern >/301-903-2211 > > >On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:34:17 -0600, Brian Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >>On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:15:36 -0600, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >> >>>Now I have to clean it up just a bit more. Which brings up the next >>tangent >>>on this discussion. When I signal a linux SVM to shutdown, CP reports that >>>the linux SVM has signalled its termination. When I am logged onto a linux >>>SVM and the shutdown signal comes in, linux terminate and loads a disabled >>>wait PSW (x0FFF) but does not log off. Is this PSW code (x0FFF) the >>>indicator to CP that SHUTDOWN has completed? If it is, how can I nicel y >>load >>>the same indicator when my SVM has completed its shutdown processing? >> >>Use the Linux kernel option VMPOFF=LOGOFF to have the Linux guest log off >>after it has shutdown. >> >>Brian Nielsen >>======================== ========================= ======================= >======================== ========================= =======================
