[Nut-upsdev] Asking hard questions about the NUT architecture

[Dmitry Bely]

On 5/30/07, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> > I have a bunch of Windows virtual machines on the top of my Linux server.
> > Which SIGPWR should they react to?
>
> How does an UPS-controlled shutdown of the Linux server gracefully
> terminate the Windows apps inside those VMs?  If it doesn't, how
> does their inability to see SIGPWR make things worse?

UPS-controlled shutdown stops virtual server which in turn have enough
time to correctly shutdown virtual machines.

- Dmitry Bely