[Nut-upsuser] early shutdown of VMware VMs

Arjen de Korte nut+users at de-korte.org
Fri Feb 13 07:19:24 UTC 2009


Citeren David Newman <dnewman op networktest.com>:

> How to shut down VMWare guest virtual machines earlier than the host
> machine they run on? (For example, if everything normally shuts down at
> 5% UPS battery, then the VMs should shut down at 10%.)

First question is, why do you want to do that?

> I also read upssched.txt but I can't tell from the early shutdown
> section which settings to use on the master and which on the slaves.
>
> This seems like a fairly standard problem -- are there sample configs
> posted someplace?

I'm not an expert on VMware, but I would expect that you can configure  
on the host that it shuts down the guests before going down.

Best regards, Arjen
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