I created virtualbox-guest-control simplesmf, because the next two leading
products (vboxsvc and the built-in smf service included with virtualbox 4.2 and
newer) had some drawbacks ... vboxsvc is very powerful but very complex, and
the complexities are things I don't need in my environment. (Things like
lifetime monitoring, and zfs auto snapshot). I also talked with some other
people about vboxsvc, and one of them said it was only 95% reliable for him.
Given the complexity and confusion, that was no surprise, so I wanted something
simpler. The built-in smf service in virtualbox 4.2, I haven't tested yet. But
I'm told it starts up guests gracefully at bootup and fails to shutdown guests
at shutdown. Now ... Knowing what I know about SMF, I think that's probably
bunk. Probably, the guests *do* shutdown gracefully, but again, I haven't
tested.
Also, I think SimpleSMF serves as a good example for just *any* simple smf
service you might want to create.
SimpleSMF: http://code.google.com/p/simplesmf/
For that matter, can anybody confirm the behavior of the new built-in SMF
service? Does it reliably shutdown guests during host shutdown? And if not,
is it fixable, is there a problem, or does it simply lack the feature?
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