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Update: Because of Ubuntu's curious hybrid state between upstart and init.d/SysV (I think), I had to add one additional step so that the graceful shutdown would work in every scenario.

To init.d...

I am very happy to report success.

First, I created the script /home/<user>/Script/vmhalt:


#!/bin/bash

# set primary variables
credentials="/path/to/credentials/file/.vmcred"

While originally researching a solution, I did come across that very link. It looks like a robust replacement for init.d and likely to allow the sort of controlled vm shutdown I'm trying to develop,...

Using this post I modified the script to allow a sudo shutdown and implemented a launcher - seems like it will do the trick. Thanks!



#if vm is running, send shutdown signal and wait 5m for...

That would work if I could somehow modify the standard GUI shutdown to point to the main script. At least then I could try to remember to always shutdown via GUI (and not "shutdown -h now" from...

I made a simple script that issues a network signal to shut down a virtual machine running in vmplayer:



#!/bin/bash

#if vm is running, send shutdown signal and wait 5m for shutdown.
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