Hi Marcelo, I'm trying to have a clean shutdown with reboot or power off depending on what's called from VMtools. The problem is this is for trying to virtualize an existing custom linux setup with it's own shutdown programs and scripts that make the call to power off or reboot.
I see that I should instead let vmtools make the power off or reboot call after all power-off scripts are run. Thanks, James On 28-Jun-10 13:36 Marcelo Vanzin wrote: > Hi James, > > On 06/24/2010 07:22 PM, James wrote: >> Of course I also see that I can just add custom user scripts to >> the /etc/vmware-tools/scripts/poweroff-vm-default.d/ directory >> and that is just what I'm doing now. The problem of course is that >> if my script does the power off at the end the reboot doesn't happen, >> and if my script just completes a shutdown and then halts the >> power is not "turned off". > > What exactly are you trying to achieve here? > > If you're just trying to run different things depending on whether power off > or > reboot is happening, you're better off using the OS's own > init/upstart/whatever > for it and not use open-vm-tools. > > If you're tying to make sure the VM powers off when you shut down the VM from > the VMware UI, you may want to look at lib/system/systemLinux.c; > currently it executes "shutdown -h" to shut down the VM, but I've seen cases > where that doesn't really turn the power off (you'd need "shutdown -P" for > those). > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
