On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 20:13 +0100, newsgroups.mail2@stefanbaur.de wrote:
Am 18.02.2012 19:54, schrieb Daniel Lindgren: <snip> <soapbox> The hassle with having to install vmware tools in every guest to perform a soft power-off, and keeping the tools up-to-date and matching the currently installed kernel is one of the many reasons why I'm moving my customers away from VMware to KVM+libvirt. Of course, they were using VMware Server, not ESXi, but honestly, my personal opinion after years of using VMware products in multiple scenarios is, if you aren't forced to use VMware (upper management decisions, already existing virtual infrastructure based on VMware components,...), don't. Had KVM been available and in a usable state 6 years ago, I would never have touched VMware Server. VMware Workstation is kind of neat for debugging/demoing stuff, though, I have to admit that.
Shutting down a guest in KVM/libvirt works by sending an ACPI "power-button pressed" event to the guest, no special drivers/modules required, just the stock ACPI support present in every modern operating system, be it Linux, *BSD or Windows. </soapbox> <snip> Likewise, if we're not using VServer, we're using KVM - John