Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:35:54 -0700 From: Tobias Oberstein <tobias.oberstein@tavendo.de> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org> Subject: AW: rc.d script for running multiple VirtualBox VMs from /etc/rc.conf Message-ID: <634914A010D0B943A035D226786325D422B76F9205@EXVMBX020-12.exch020.serverdata.net> In-Reply-To: <4DA4A6C7.6050803@FreeBSD.org> References: <634914A010D0B943A035D226786325D422B76F91CA@EXVMBX020-12.exch020.serverdata.net> <4DA4A6C7.6050803@FreeBSD.org>
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> > I wanted to configure multiple VirtualBox VMs to startup automatically at
> boot time and generally be a nice citizen to the FreeBSD way of starting up
> stuff.
>
> Thanks for providing this, however there are several problems, some of
> which you outlined in your post.
>
> The canonical way to do what you're suggesting is to copy the script so that
> you have one script per process you want to start, each with a different
I've tried that first .. but for me it gets unwieldy when you need to manage i.e. a dozen VMs
> $name. That way you avoid a lot of the complexity that you've created, and
> everything works.
Could you explain how doing it in separate scripts will solve i.e.
> 2) when the system shuts down, it doesnt wait for "stop" to finish graceful shutdown of VMs
?
The problem is, that
VBoxManage controlvm ${vboxvm_name} acpipowerbutton
does exit immediately.
It does not wait until the VM is actually powered down.
Is there i.e. a rc.d "hook" which allows me to make the shutdown process wait for some condition (at least up to say a limit of 20s)?
What is the canonical way of doing that kind of stuff?
Or is there a way of just making the shutdown delayed for 30s independent of any of above?
Thanks,
Tobias
>
>
> hth,
>
> Doug
>
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