Looking for a way to shutdown guest systems when VMware Server host goes down

[uoirej]

Hi, I'm running VMWare Server 2 on Ubuntu Server 8.04. Just wondering if there is a way to automatically shutdown guest systems when the host goes down? vmware does print something like "stopping autostart virtual machines" on the console during host shutdown, but it doesn't seem to really shut down anything, the result looks like a "virtual poweroff"...

Any ideas?

PS Running VMware Server 2.0 beta e.x.p build-84186 under UbuntuServer 8.04 (2.6.24-16-server).

PPS Does anoyne know what that "e.x.p" means?

[LeoSolaris]

For the real issue, I have no idea, but I can tell you that the e.x.p. stands for experimental.

[jure1873]

vmrun list
vmrun stop ubuntu.vmx
...

maybe vmrun stop *.vmx?

[loners]

Try using vmrun runProgramInGuest option to run the shutdown command in the guest.