On 2013-06-25 06:11, Jan Owoc wrote:
2) I was able to get the machine to autostart using SMF, but it was a lot of work; should I expand that section of the wiki with my findings?
Did you use the stock (VirtualBox 4.2.x provided) SMF scripts, or my vboxsvc project from SourceForge? If documentation or usability of the latter is lacking, I'd like to know ;) I do firmly believe that the stock methods are too linux-initscript-oriented and are seriously lacking regarding SMF (not using its full potential), at least as of currently released versions; still, a chapter on their usage (and limitations) might be useful in our Wiki. > I have no idea how to get it to "autoshutdown" when the > machine is shutting down. In particular, for vboxsvc you can set a number of vm/stop_method values that result in different actions sent to the VM, such as savestate, poweroff, acpipowerbutton, poweroff-graceful (first an acpipowerbutton, then after a timeout - an ungraceful poweroff, if VM is still running). Also, based on some reports, VirtualBox 4.1.x may be more stable than 4.2.x. In particular, I myself had problems with clock skew on 4.2.x which made VMs unusable after about a week of uptime (on a Windows host server, however) which were resolved after a "downgrade" to 4.1.24 or whichever was latest; got over 2 months of VM uptime last time I checked. Sometimes the clock skews are objectively related to host loads, sometimes they are just a bug of a particular version and not explicable otherwise (i.e. when VMs lag on a load-less host). HTH, //Jim Klimov _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
