[gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I was running VMWare and the program inside of Windows has crashed. (Or maybe Windows crashed or maybe VMWare crashed - I cannot tell.) Gentoo is still alive and I can log in and look around but the mouse on that computer but its mouse is frozen so I cannot do anything at its screen. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:12 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I was running VMWare and the program inside of Windows has crashed. > (Or maybe Windows crashed or maybe VMWare crashed - I cannot tell.) > >Gentoo is still alive and I can log in and look around but the > mouse on that computer

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:12 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>    I was running VMWare and the program inside of Windows has crashed. >> (Or maybe Windows crashed or maybe VMWare crashed - I cannot tell.) >> >>    Gentoo is still alive and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Iain Buchanan wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:12 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> Hi, >>>    I was running VMWare and the program inside of Windows has crashed. >>> (Or maybe Windows crashed or maybe VMWare crashed -

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Tue, 02/02, Mark Knecht wrote: === > Thanks for your responses. === FYI, it is possible to control VMware from the shell. Use the vmrun tool. If the guest has vmware tools installed and is working properly you can do a clean shutdown. e.g. vmrun -T ws /path/to/vm.vmx stop soft -- Kei

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:50:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I didn't have as much luck with VirtualBox that didn't seem to like me > moving copies from one partition to another. I must go back and give > that another try as I'd like to be using Open Source but for now > VMWare is very nice. VirtualBo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:50:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I didn't have as much luck with VirtualBox that didn't seem to like me >> moving copies from one partition to another. I must go back and give >> that another try as I'd like to be usi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:29:40 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >I guess that you're correct that it's been crippled a bit but > according to this page it doesn't seem that bad to me: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions > >I don't personally need the USB stuff inside of VB so for me it > m

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:29:40 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>    I guess that you're correct that it's been crippled a bit but >> according to this page it doesn't seem that bad to me: >> >> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions >> >>    I don

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:09:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > It seems a little underhand to me, either its open source or it isn't. > > There's no good technical reason to not release the USB source, only > > commercial reasons. > I agree, but it may be that Sun had licensed stuff like this from > s