When working on a guest console session and clicking the "X" on the window it suspends the guest. Is there any way to set it up so that clicking on the "X" will power off the guest? (The host is not being shut down)
My question doesn't have to do with the guest start up, that's working great for me. Maybe I should have added more information. I have a Novell Server that starts when the host starts, it's working great. I've created a shortcut for the users that login to start an DOS guest to run their app. Being that I have many users that will be using this some I can teach to power off the DOS guest some will just close the console window. I'm looking for a way to power off the guest when the console window is closed, right not it just suppends the guest.
Thanks
EK
I've not seen the act of quitting a console window cause a guest to suspend but I'm not saying I don't believe you!
What OS are the users running the console on? I'm thinking here of a script that watches for the disappearance of the vmware-vmrc process (are they going to run more than a single console as this will complicate things?) (probably also have some fun waiting for the process to first appear) and then uses the vmrun command to restart the VM, if it is indeed suspended, and then power it off.
Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009
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