>>> On 6/3/2009 at 1:43 PM, Robert J McCarthy <bob.mccar...@custserv.com> >>> wrote: > I am trying to develop a shutdown procedure to cleanly shutdown my linux > guests, prior to shutting down vm. Reading the documentation in the > virtualization cookbook for SLES10 and the vm CP COMMANDS manual; I have > setup the following : > 1. In each linux guest's /etc/inittab; I have changed the shutdown -r to > shutdown -h
This is entirely unnecessary. If you leave the switch as "-r" it will still work. This makes it possible to have a common /etc/inittab for all architectures and still get the desired results. Mark Post