2009/3/20 Markus Hennecke <markus-henne...@markus-hennecke.de>: > Guido Tschakert wrote: >> >> the question is: do you use the vmware-tools from server 2.0 and if you do >> so, how did you manage it? > > No, we are running server 1.0.8 for our OpenBSD vmware installations. We > have some laptops with our Windows client software that needs fast access to > a database on an OpenBSD server. All setup for evaluation of the whole > packet. So we need the ability to gracefully shutdown the vm if the laptop > is powered down. The vm must start when the laptop is started. It is a setup > for users with low skills on computers (medical personel mostly), so the > ability to start and shut down a vm is not something I can expect. > > OpenBSD 4.4 or newer will run happily with the vmware server 2.0, but no > automatic shutdown is a real show stopper.
VMware Workstation 6 and VMware Server 2 provide command line options for controlling specific VM's with the vmrun command. http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/ws/vmrunCommand.pdf You could script VM suspends for when the host is being shutdown and VM unsuspends when the host starts up. I use vmrun to shut VM's down to prepare them to be rsync'ed with remote copies. Shane
