Running virtualbox with fedora guest, I want the host to be able to gracefully
shutdown the guest.
Unfortunately, in recent versions of fedora, they ignore the acpi power button,
and there is no easy way to enable it. (If you are logged into the guest, you
can configure it via gnome, but nothing at the login screen. And if you
install acpid which isn't included by default anymore, it doesn't do anything.)
At present, I'm having to resort to TCP, specifcally ssh. But if you have to
use *any* thing tcp, it's all the same - dependencies on TCP being up, and
authentication working, and DNS or static DHCP configured, etc. What I really
want is something that's built into the guest additions, that will work without
all those other dependencies.
Is there any other way to get the guest additions to run a shutdown command, or
do some other form of shutdown, other than just hoping and assuming the guest
OS will handle it? (Graceful shutdown. Not poweroff, and not savestate.)
I would love to see the ability to send a signal to the guest additions, and
have a config file (or something) in the guest, that specified what the guest
additions behavior should be upon receiving that signal. Then, without the
acpipowerbutton or anything, you can directly send a signal from host to guest.
Thanks...
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