Re: Beginnning to think about VMware and SCO 5.0.5

Pepe wrote:
Then you wait 5 minutes with some "sleep" command, for OpenServer to display the ** Safe to poweroff ** legend (or more, or less, Steve should know how long it takes to shutdown his OpenServer application software), and then you issue the "vmware-cmd VMname stop" commmand from server A.

Actually, that would be "vmware-cmd VMname.vmx stop hard". Just make sure the "expect" script managed to first shut down the the guest OpenServer.
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