Switch user shutdown problem

[WibbleWobble]

Hi,

I noticed last night that my wife could shut down the computer even when I was logged in by inputting an admin password to confirm that other users would also be logged out.

Now the thing is that I was logged into my account with Fusion started running XP under bootcamp.

Does the logout process shutdown XP properly and un-mount the NTFS drive or are there likely to be problems in the long term?

I know that if I try to log out of my own account Fusion stops the logout process, but obviously not if another user logs me out from their account. Is this a bug in fusion or something that is controlled entirely by the Mac OS?

Ed

[admin]

This is controlled entirely by OS X - normally when you logout, OS X politely asks all your apps to quit, but any of them can say no (this is what Fusion does). When your wife used the admin password to shut down OS X, it's a more forceful way of doing this and apps don't get a chance to refuse.

Think of it as the difference between Quit and Force Quit - in the first case, documents get a chance to remind you to save, but in the second case, it just goes.

I'm not sure if this process gives Fusion a chance to politely quit before using the I Really Mean It option, but I wouldn't bet on it. You should probably avoid this if possible.

[seattleda]

I had a problem last night - my power went out and my UPS sent the proper message to my iMac. It would have shut down, but VMware stopped it. Then the UPS died and the machine went with it.

So, how do you tell VMWare Fusion to quit , since, as you say, it says no?

BTW, I found that it does this if I attempt to Restart the iMac. I expected it to just suspend and quit - how can I get it to do this?

[admin]

Uncheck Preferences > Confirm before closing.

You might be able to do some fancy scripting to disable this if the UPS is sending the shutdown message but have it enabled otherwise, but I don't know that this is possible (among other things, it depends on exactly how the UPS tells the iMac to shut down).

[Bob_Zimmerman]

You might want to look into whether your iMac supports Safe Sleep. Basically, Safe Sleep is a hybrid of normal sleep and hibernation. It writes all of your RAM and state information to a file on your hard drive, then puts the computer to sleep. If power is maintained, it just wakes up from sleep like normal. If you lose power, it restores from the file on your drive. I've found that while a running VM in VMware Workstation 5 keeps a Windows machine from hibernating, running VMs in Fusion don't seem to prevent my Mac from doing the same.

I haven't done extensive experiments, but it seems to work fine for me.