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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:12 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> I was running VMWare and the program inside of Windows has crashed. |
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>>> (Or maybe Windows crashed or maybe VMWare crashed - I cannot tell.) |
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>>> |
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>>> Gentoo is still alive and I can log in and look around but the |
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>>> mouse on that computer but its mouse is frozen so I cannot do anything |
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>>> at its screen. It seems the keyboard is dead also. |
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>> |
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>> So can you do things once logged in? Which screen are you talking |
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>> about? Sounds like you're host is locked up, not just the guest? |
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>>> top says there's nothing going on. No CPU cycles at all. |
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>>> |
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>>> Is there a way for me to ask Linux to talk to VMWare and see if it |
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>>> can shut itself down before I hit the reset button? |
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>> as in "tell VMWare to do a windows shutdown"? Not that I'm aware of. |
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>> killall -15 vmware |
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>> will send the SIGTERM to all vmware named processes. (You may need to |
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>> use vmware-workstation, or just use ps to get the PID). If that doesn't |
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>> work, follow up with a |
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>> killall -9 vmware |
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>> Then if you're still stuck, gnome-session-save with either --logout or |
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>> --force-logout should log you out nicely. If that gets stuck, try |
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>> |
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>> kill -15 -1 |
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>> from your user login (not root) to kill all your processess. Again, |
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>> maybe a |
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>> kill -9 -1 |
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>> is required. It will log you out of the ssh session. |
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>> If that fails (as you can tell I've done this before) try an acpi |
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>> shutdown. If that fails, use the magic SysRq, but I don't think you'll |
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>> need to go that far since you can ssh in. |
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>> -- |
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>> Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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>> Simon: "My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training." |
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>> --Episode #7, "Jaynestown" |
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> |
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> i think Mark want to know if it is possible to send commands from host |
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> to guest. try "vmrun". i used it use send "showdown" command to my |
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> windows guest once, and it worked. but it is not very nice to use. you |
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> need to give the full path of the command you are going to execute. |
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> -- |
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> Best Regards, |
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> David Shen |
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Yes, that was exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. It seems to |
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me that if the machine is alive and vmware is alive (as I beleive they |
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were) then it would be cool to tell vmplayer to reboot or shutdown |
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Windows gracefully so as to cause as little problems with the disk |
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image as possible. |
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I got anxious about 30-40 minutes after sending the original post to |
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the list and just issued a kill with no numeric value in top. vmware |
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closed immediately. When I restarted vmplayer Windows acted like it |
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does when you had to pull the plug on a physical box - complaining |
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that it wasn't shut down properly, etc., and went through it's checks. |
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The image came up fine and off it went to do some work. |
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Very nice thinking that since WinXP is just a disk file that I have |
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backed up on my network I can reload this machine in a couple of |
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minutes or even move it to another machine to run and not lose too |
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much time. |
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I didn't have as much luck with VirtualBox that didn't seem to like me |
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moving copies from one partition to another. I must go back and give |
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that another try as I'd like to be using Open Source but for now |
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VMWare is very nice. |
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Thanks for your responses. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |