I am () close to go back to KVM (and not renewing my VMware licenses also (they are workstations)). I got embarassed in a demo and luckily was saved by KVM to be honest.

To my problem: I cant shut down my guests except using a script to kill the PIDs of the running guests. Then I have to completely bounce GSX 2.0.1. Looking around I see that CentOS is having the same issue. Should we just completely abandon the world of VMware (which was proven stable in the past, but that is NOT the case now) or is there a bonafide solution that deals with this issue? Is this issue associated with the extremely crappy Tomcat J2EE server integration (I could put one of my programmers to work on it)?

I just don't want to sound like one of those whiners, but VMware is the standard by which my customers work from and now I have halted all testing of my solutions (my folks first alerted me to the situation, so I rolled up my sleeves and start replicating what they seen).

From what I see, hostd seems very unstable.

Is there a workaround? I really don't mean to bash VMware (hey its good stuff from the beginning, what happened?).

Thanks everyone and have a good day!