On Nov 21, 2005, at 9:10 AM, James Melin wrote:
I know there is an interface to have VM tell Linux to shutdown. Is there a good way to have VM be told that a guest is shutdown and can be logged off?
Well, that's what SIGNAL SHUTDOWN is supposed to do: you get Linux to respond appropriately to it, and the Linux guest logs off when it's ready. No further action required.
Our VM people have just given the Linux 10 minutes to respond to a shutdown command. If you're not down, tough. Mostly this seems to be enough time but occasionally one of our WebSphere guests is not all the way down and then the file system gets wonky or some such and repair must be done.
In that case there's probably NO amount of time that's going to help. However...
I was thinking perhaps with CPINT or something a more two way handshake thing can be done.
Yeah, you could certainly coordinate, say, cpint and the IUCV driver to figure something out. Haven't been there myself but it would be not-all-that-hard. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
