acpi shutdown on machines migrated from vmware not working

[holgihero]

I am aware this is a more exotic problem but i have two machines (one win2003, one ubu 8.04) which where migrated from vmware server a long time ago. Both had vmware tools installed (now deactivated) and both do not react to "qm shutdown".
Has anybody had such an issue and eventually a solution?

Regards, Holgi

 

[tom]

qm shutdown sends acpi shutdown to the guest. depending on the software installed and configured inside the guests it works or not.

for linux, you need to install acpid, see e.g. http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/49...t-understand-shutdown-signal?p=28008#poststop

for windows, I assume a policy prevents anonymous shutdown, see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_2003_guest_best_practices

 

[tom]

for 8.04:

apt-get install acpid

 

[holgihero]

Hi Tom,

thank you for your reply, the ubuntu machine has apci installed but does not respond propperly for unknown reason. I now send the halt command via ssh...

The windows server had the vmware tools already installed despite my statement from above. After removing the vmware files it works as expected.

Thank you and best regards, Holgi

 

[tom]

Hi Tom,

thank you for your reply, the ubuntu machine has apci installed but does not respond propperly for unknown reason. I now send the halt command via ssh...

The windows server had the vmware tools already installed despite my statement from above. After removing the vmware files it works as expected.

Thank you and best regards, Holgi

For Debian Lenny, you need the backported acpid packages so probably you just need to update your hardy to the latest acpid? - I tested with a fully up2date hardy (server), shutdown works.

 

[holgihero]

Hi Tom,

there is nothing newer in the repo.
My guess is that there has not been done a proper deinstallation of vmware tools. Using ssh is good enough for the moment. I just wanted to make sure our infrastructure shuts down when the solar flare hits earth tomorrow

Best regards, Holgi