On Oct 10, 1:06 pm, Bela Lubkin <fi...@armory.com> wrote:
> "RLR" wrote:
>
> > The only drawback I've encountered running on VMware is that it's easy
> > to corrupt the virtual disk with an improper shutdown. VMware
> > provides tools that let the host OS do that safely for supported guest
> > OS's. Is there some workaround for that?
>
> You can certainly arrange for your virtual OSR5 to be shut down on
> demand. That is, if you _know_ you are shutting down the virtualization
> environment, you can take steps at the same time to shut down the VMs
> even if they are not going to be able to respond to internal signals
> from the virtualization environment.
>
> What's that mean?
>
> At the crudest level, it means: before you shutdown VMware, login to the
> OSR5 VM as root and shut it down manually.
>
> What refinements can you make on that?
>
> Well, you can shutdown the OSR5 box remotely by doing:
>
> ssh root@osr5vm shutdown -g0 -y # or whatever
>
>
> >Bela<

Shutting down the guest OS is not a sufficient condition to prevent
corruption of the virtual disk.

--RLR