For the archives I'm answering my own question:
https://man.openbsd.org/vmt.4: > vmt handles shutdown and reboot requests from the host by signalling > init(8) with SIGUSR2 and SIGINT respectively. We made our own init listen to SIGUSR2 and SIGINT and that solved our problem. > Le 25 septembre 2018 18:22:57 GMT+02:00, Torsten <tmp...@4ss.de> a écrit : >> Hi! >> >> I'm working on a project with a large number of highly customized >> OpenBSD6.3 based appliances. >> >> On each of these machines VMWare reports VMWare tools to be "installed >> and ready". However, when I try to actually do something like shutdown, >> reboot or sleep, there simply is no reaction. The machine remains up >> and >> running. >> >> When I run a standard OpenBSD 6.3 machine on the same hypervisor, >> everything works fine, so in general everything seems to be functional. >> But we must have missed something when building these individual >> appliances. I just cannot figure out what that could be. I read "man >> vmt" but I couldn't figure if vmt would require some service that's >> normally started by rc, which in our appliances is not being started. >> In >> fact, the appliances do not use the OpenBSD init system at all but >> replace them with some custom init. >> >> What are we missing? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> T. > > I just read your message as "we run modified openbsd and it doesn't work, but > official openbsd work" > > It's hard to help you. >
