Re: [Nut-upsuser] early shutdown of VMware VMs

2009-02-26 Thread Arnaud Quette
Hi David, just a forward to the list since others might be interested in that info. 2009/2/25 David Newman dnew...@networktest.com On 2/17/09 5:26 AM, Arnaud Quette wrote: I've appended a script excerpt I've once made to address the guest shutdown from the host. it was for ESX, and at

Re: [Nut-upsuser] early shutdown of VMware VMs

2009-02-14 Thread Doug Parsons
Thanks, Doug. I'm newly on VMWare Server 2, which has different tools than the 1.x ones I'm familiar with. AFAIK the 1.x tools did not have any sort of UPS or shutdown awareness capability; I'll need to check whether that's true with 2.x. dn Unfortunately Server is the only version that I don't

Re: [Nut-upsuser] early shutdown of VMware VMs

2009-02-13 Thread Jon Bendtsen
On 13/02/2009, at 16.48, David Newman wrote: On 2/12/09 11:19 PM, Arjen de Korte wrote: Citeren David Newman dnew...@networktest.com: How to shut down VMWare guest virtual machines earlier than the host machine they run on? (For example, if everything normally shuts down at 5% UPS

Re: [Nut-upsuser] early shutdown of VMware VMs

2009-02-13 Thread Douglas Parsons
What version of VMWare are you running? This makes a difference as to your choices. Do you have the VMWare tools installed on the virtual machines? With most versions you can have the host shut down the guest. Some versions give more options than others. As I understood from a previous thread

Re: [Nut-upsuser] early shutdown of VMware VMs

2009-02-13 Thread David Newman
On 2/13/09 8:46 AM, Douglas Parsons wrote: What version of VMWare are you running? This makes a difference as to your choices. Do you have the VMWare tools installed on the virtual machines? With most versions you can have the host shut down the guest. Some versions give more options than

Re: [Nut-upsuser] early shutdown of VMware VMs

2009-02-13 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren David Newman dnew...@networktest.com: How to shut down VMWare guest virtual machines earlier than the host machine they run on? (For example, if everything normally shuts down at 5% UPS battery, then the VMs should shut down at 10%.) First question is, why do you want to do that?