Re: [Apcupsd-users] USB HID Driver and killpower

[Neal P. M. <nea...@al...>]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:42:22 -0400
Timothy J Massey <tm...@mo...> wrote:

> Kaeny Ito-Cole <kae...@gm...> wrote on 07/16/2019 07:52:26 PM:
> 
> > >shutdown and startup delay for USB UPS  
> >
> > I would put the delay in the script that gets called on event. You 
> > can just put a time before shutdown from within windows(shutdown -t)
> > or put it in the linux script (sleep).  
> 
> Not when the script is running on a VM and the hypervisor it's running 
> under needs to shut down too.  The VM has to be down first -- and then who 
> shuts down the UPS?  That's *exactly* the problem that the power off delay 
> addresses.

Why doesn't the host (that runs the hypervisor) shut down the VMs in an orderly manner first when it starts its shutdown process?