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I have a shutdown script that suspends all vmware workstation guests when the host is shutdown.

I manually placed symbolic links to the shutdown script in rc0.d (shutdown) and rc6.d (reboot). (ln -s /etc/init.d/shutdownvms /etc/rc0.d/K00shutdownvms)

The /etc/init.d/shutdownvms script is:

Code:

#! /bin/sh

vms=$(vmrun list | grep '/');

echo $(date) >> /home/log

echo 'total vms:'  ${vms}  >> /home/log

for vm in ${vms}

do

        echo 'suspending vm ' $vm >> /home/log

        vmrun suspend $vm soft

        echo 'done, sleeping 10 seconds' >> /home/log

        sleep 10

done

exit 0

The problem is, my script runs but it shows that there are 0 vms running.

In my rc0.d, I see that there is K01gdm which kills xserver/gdm. I think if those are killed, the VMware guests are also killed. However my script should be firing before that because it has a order of 0.

Maybe when gnome shutdown is trigger, it kills xserver etc.

How do I resolve this?