Auto shutdown is controlled by the VMware host, not inside the guest
OS. I haven't done this in Workstation, but in VMware Server there
are host options where you set the auto start/shutdown preferences.
Upon shutdown, VMware will just send an ACPI shutdown signal to the
VM, and it will act as if someone pressed the power button (soft
shutdown).
Google probably knows more. This is a VMware question, not specific to CentOS.
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Alexander Farber
<alexander.farber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using CentOS 5.5 / 16bit as a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation
> and have installed the "VMWare Tools" by running vmware-install.pl and
> vmware-config-tools.pl but can't figure out how to make the VM shutdown,
> when I shutdown the Windows PC hosting it.
>
> Does anybody please have any hints or scripts?
>
> Do I need to use any VMWare modules if I just want to shutdown the VM?
>
> Surprisingly I haven't found any good starters on the web yet
>
> Thank you
> Alex
>
> PS: Here is what I have in /usr/local
>
> # ls /usr/local/bin/
> vm-support vmware-toolbox vmware-user
> vmware-config-tools.pl vmware-toolbox-cmd vmware-user-wrapper
> vmware-hgfsclient vmware-uninstall-tools.pl vmware-xferlogs
>
> # ls /usr/local/sbin/
> vmtoolsd vmware-checkvm vmware-rpctool vmware-tools-upgrader
>
> # ls /usr/local/lib/vmware-tools/modules/binary/bld-2.6.18-8.el5-i686PAE-RHEL5/objects/
> pvscsi.o vmblock.o vmci.o vmhgfs.o vmmemctl.o vmsync.o vmxnet3.o
> vmxnet.o vsock.o
>
> ( <--- not sure if that's the relevant dir)
>
> # rpm -qa | grep kernel
> kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5
> kernel-2.6.18-194.11.3.el5
> kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.11.3.el5
> kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5
>
> # /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep -i vmware
> vmware-tools 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
>
> # sudo lsmod | grep vm
> vmblock 20512 3
> vmmemctl 16956 0
> vmci 38308 1 vsock
> vmxnet3 37764 0
> vmxnet 24836 0
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