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VMware Workstation 5: How to shut down guest OS programmatically?

Asked by Zamba1 in Miscellaneous Software

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Hi all,
I'm currently playing around with VMware Workstation 5 on WinXP and searching for a reliable way to shut down specific or all guest operating systems programmatically. I mean a 'soft power off' that shuts down the guest OS before powering off the virtual machine. When I shut down or restart the host or doing a backup, etc., I want all VMs to shut down orderly first. It works well in the user interface, but I need an automated solution.

I already tried:
- The included vmrun tool - it works well, but it supports only a hard poweroff - it always does a hard poweroff, regardless what's configured in the vmx file.
- Some other tools that try to automate the power off/soft off by controlling the VMware user interface. This is not really a reliable solution - I don't want this.
- Found some info about the (undocumented of course) communication backdoor that VMware tools use to communicate with the host, but although this info was useful, there was no description about the other direction back to the VM and it would involve some low level coding, which is time intensive and I don't know how reliable this is.

Best solution would be of course if VMware would include a soft poweroff option in vmrun.
I know that the GSX server can do all that stuff, but switching to GSX server is currently no option.

Any ideas?
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