If your linux guests are enabled in /etc/inittab to shutdown in response to CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN USER guest then CP Q SIGNALS shows they're enabled and from that you might infer they're running (but perhaps not yet at the LOGIN PROMPT like you wanted) Signalled Timeout Userid Signal Signal Status By Remaining TZ2LF162 SHUTDOWN Enabled - - DZ2MFRT2 SHUTDOWN Enabled - - DZ2MFRT1 SHUTDOWN Enabled - -
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