RE: guest failure to shutdown / reboot

[Edward N. H. <ope...@ne...>]

I never saw any reply to this.
Maybe this list or this project is basically abandoned???

Of particular interest:  
-1- I'd like to know if there is any documentation regarding the config
file.  I couldn't find any.
-2- If vmtoolsd is logging the "OS_Halt" signal, but then the OS doesn't
halt, I'd like to know how to go about figuring out what's wrong.

Thank you...



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:ope...@ne...]
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 12:01 AM
> To: ope...@li...
> Subject: guest failure to shutdown / reboot
> 
> On my system (pfsense 1.2.3 which is based on an old version of FreeBSD,
> running on vmware ESXi 4.0u1) I installed the Open-VM-Tools package
> (package ver 167859) via web interface, but I don't know which version of
> open-vm-tools that is.
> 
> Rebooted.  My vmtoolsd is running.  The rc.d scripts seem to work fine
during
> bootup.  The kldstat shows vmmemctl.ko, vmxnet.ko, vmblock.ko, and
> vmhgfs.ko loaded into the kernel.
> 
> But my host OS cannot shutdown/reboot the guest OS.  (And I don't know
> what else it can't do.)
> 
> I don't know what the cause of the problem is, but ps -ax shows me:
> /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd -c /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/tools.conf -p
> /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc
> and I noticed the conf file doesn't exist.  This seems suspicious.
> 
> I can't seem to find any documentation anywhere, indicating what should go
> inside that file?  But I'm not sure I should be sticking anything in that
file...
> 
> I enabled logging, issued the guest shutdown command from the host, and I
> got this in the log:
> [Jan 15 21:19:45.931] [   debug] [powerops] State change: OS_Halt
> [Jan 15 21:19:45.960] [   debug] [powerops] State change complete, success
=
> 0.
> 
> Nothing happened.  But at least I know the guest got the signal...  And I
don't
> know enough about open-vm-tools to figure out what I should look at
> next.  Like ...
> 
> When the guest gets that signal, what gets it?  Does the signal go
directly to
> vmtoolsd?
> Does vmtoolsd then launch some shutdown command, which is actually
> failing?  What is that command?