script to shutdown VM on power button press

[kisiel]

Hi. I use Mac vm (no guest agent).
My idea is that when I press power button proxmox could send shutdown command to OSX via ssh.
This would should allow to close mac vm gracefully.
I am not sure what is happening now, but I have a feeling that mac simply sees it as yanking the cable off the mains.

any ideas?

 

[LnxBil]

Should be doable with acpid.

Shutting down a VM should also be possible without the guest agent. You can always send a ACPI shutdown to the KVM process and the guest OS could respond to that. Needs checking on MacOS, yet in theory it could work.

 

[kisiel]

so you mean that MacOS should close down gracefully just based on ACPI shutdown signal.
you might be right, I am not sure how to prove it though

 

[sw-omit]

Simple, close down all programs on your mac-vm, then within proxmox press the shutdown or restart option (NOT stop/reset) while looking at the console. If you see if it shutting down cleanly and it also starts up without error there, you should be good with the power-button too. If not, you've got to "fix" your mac-vm first.

(the closing down programs is so that IF it does crash, the chance of any corruption is negligible low, but if you want to be extra sure, make a snapshot/clone first)