Re: Shutdown does not power off VMWare Machine



On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, llothar wrote:
I'm using VMWare 6.0 and when i do a "/sbin/shutdown -p now" the
machine halts but vmware is still running and does not turn of the
process. Is there any way to make it work (latest FreeBSD and Ubuntu
don't have problems).

I think vmware is waiting for the right APM/ACPI calls from the guest, before it powers off the VM. Does your (custom?) guestkernel support these things?

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