Greetings,
I have VMware Server 2.0.2 Build 203138 running on a Windows Server 2003 32-bit host. The guest is a RHEL 5 guest that's actually running CentOS 5 (currently 5.7). Everything is fine as far as operations go.
However, for the life of me I cannot get the host to GRACEFULLY shut down the guest when the host goes down for a halt or reboot. I have VMware Tools installed on the guest. If I use the VMware web console to shut down the guest, it gracefully shuts down and all is fine. If I reboot the host, once it's up it DOES start the guest (I did configure "allow guests to start/stop automatically") and such.
Again, upon host reboot, the *startup* of the guest works fine--it automatically starts once the host is up, and all is well.
The only piece of the puzzle, then, concerns a graceful shutdown *when the host shuts down*. If I login to the host OS and do a reboot, it just dives right down and my guest essentially dies as if it was unplugged--no graceful shutdown.
As mentioned, it DOES gracefully shutdown the guest on-demand, but I am trying to make sure that if, for some reason, the host OS is rebooted, the guest OS gets a nice clean, graceful reboot, rather than a midstream death.
I have tried every config I can find, and I even reinstalled VMware Server to make SURE I checked the box "Allow guests to start/stop automatically" *at install time* and, indeed, that didn't change it: auto-boots work fine, but graceful shutdowns upon host OS shutdown do not.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dan