On 03/06/2013 16:06, Edward Ned Harvey (vbox-users) wrote:
People like that just aren't worth talking to, when I get that kind of response to my queries I tend to go find another online community and product that is going to be helpful in allowing me to reach *my* goals, not be put into a box as to how *they* feel things should work. You should, however, bear in mind that who you find making statements in IRC likely doesn't represent the project as a whole - you may just have happened across some dork who happened to not be idle at the time.From: Giles Coochey [mailto:gi...@coochey.net]I've not had this exact issue, as I just use acpid and run Centos rather than Fedora. But I just thought I would check -Problem *seems* to have been introduced in fedora 16. Not present in centos. At least, based on me searching the internet, finding other people asking the same questions and going unanswered. I went and chatted on the fedora IRC, and the consensus there was "fedora doesn't support virtualbox," (which should be irrelevant; I'm not asking fedora to "support" virtualbox; I'm just trying to make a fedora VM shutdown.) And "The behavior you describe is not the behavior most users want." They apparently think most users want the power button to do nothing. Or at least, to do nothing by default, but be configurable to prompt for shutdown if you are logged in at the time, and to do nothing (non-configurable) pre-login at the login screen. But I'm not going to argue with them about that - They also said, they run all their VM's in KVM and use libvirt. I started looking at libvirt, as mentioned previously in this thread. It has support for vmware, virtualbox, kvm, and others. But I got confused by their documentation, didn't figure anything out in an hour, and decided to forget about it for now. All I want to do is shutdown a couple of machines.
Your problem had nothing to do with Virtualbox, you wanted custom functionality through the ACPI interface. I imagine their responses were steered because you mentioned a product sponsored and maintained by Oracle, which in some parts of the OSS community is seen as a bit of an Ogre.
Glad you got pretty much what you wanted in the end. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net
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