Send shutdown signal to Ubuntu Jeos VM fails

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chris.percol
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Send shutdown signal to Ubuntu Jeos VM fails

Post by chris.percol »

Hi there...I am running Ubuntu Jeos vms in headless mode on the MAC and virtualbox 3.2.

My query is regarding shutdown? If I am in graphical mode the vms ignore the 'send shutdown signal' command which I guess is the reason I have no joy with vboxmanage controlvm also. How do I troubleshoot/fix this?

Many thanks,

Chris
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chris.percol
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Re: [SOLVED] Send shutdown signal to Ubuntu Jeos VM fails

Post by chris.percol »

From another post discovered acpid was the answer, installed it and now Jeos vm shutsdown.
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Re: Send shutdown signal to Ubuntu Jeos VM fails

Post by Sasquatch »

Correct. Without the ACPI daemon running, there is no action defined when such a signal is received and just ignores it.
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