From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0293138247 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:11:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE177E0A86; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a115.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaabae.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B506BE09EA for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:10:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a115.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a115.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C46A8304 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:10:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s= libertytrek.org; bh=djzpIZ3uopP/BvGDPB9xsD5CoOs=; b=ZzpfKUhGQ9rx Li2U4tc9K29UZjt6/0qatGIB7alX8RJEmTq+mSylC64o8ffBGToby3ZAoj2GvW5f 6lsluFTYXbTR2BZe7B9xgtrJjogHKIr5FhxMZdJTtZz+TLDaXvCyeehh0okF0+V5 d85orBgYd/LYXHT2yFSDSKp5wnltfAs= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [159.63.145.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a115.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 665CD8303 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:10:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52D92BB6.4090605@libertytrek.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:10:14 -0500 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi? References: <52D73FDA.4060909@gmail.com> <52D8392A.3060801@libertytrek.org> <52D84C52.6060709@gmail.com> <52D8509D.3020908@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52D8509D.3020908@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 482a5ee1-d16a-4079-b623-b61e2f1c5188 X-Archives-Hash: 68d6d401ba8d221ac67c2026e750ffe2 On 2014-01-16 4:35 PM, Jarry wrote: > On 16-Jan-14 22:17, Daniel Frey wrote: >> >> Yes, the guest shutdown seems to still be working. I've tested both >> manual (i.e. asking for a guest shutdown) and it works, and I've set up >> my APC ups to shutdown the host and all VMs, again all working. If >> you're interested in the howtos for the APC shutdown I think I have a >> bookmark around somewhere. > > BTW if all you want is safe shutdown, it can be done even without > vm-tools (which I personally do not like at all). In vSphere-client > I have "suspend" instead of shutdown (current state with memory > snapshot is saved), from ESXi you'd have to play a little with > /sbin/shutdown.sh script (i.e. with ssh/keys to log into all VM > and shut them down), No desire to use this - my only concern is safe shutdown of gentoo guests (other VMs are Windows Servers that can natively be safely shut down). > and for power-interruption you can use NUT (which I find better than > apcupsd or PowerChute, because there is native NUT-client for > ESXi)... Excellent. Is there any kind of docs on getting this working on both the host and the gentoo VMs? > apart from apcupsd you can use NUT (which I find better, there is > native ESXi-client). I'm VERY interested in this option, Jarry... One major reason is open-vm-tools requires modules to be enabled in the kernel, and . But... does NUT require modules? Or can I just compile in whatever I need? I generally have always run my servers without modules enabled (I know that open-vm-tools requires modules to be enabled), for security purposes (one less thing to worry about). I know that NUT has full support for my UPS's (Powerware 9125's), so I'm hoping modules are not required. Even if they are, I'd still rather use NUT than the open-vm-tools. I would appreciate any doc pointers, or other additional information, if you are so inclined. Thanks!!