Re: New installation v6.2 won't shutdown

Posted by gbohn on 2012/2/20 21:25:08

> Shutting Down...Running guests on default URI:

I just went through this myself running CentOS 6.2 64-bit under a VMware Workstation 8.0.2 host (Windows-7). If your issue is the same as mine, then this is a bug in the VMware Workstation 8.0.2 BIOS.

See the thread at http://communities.vmware.com/thread/391186?tstart=0 .

In my case, I tried the workaround of changing

vcpu.hotadd = "TRUE"

to

vcpu.hotadd = "FALSE"

in the VMs .vmx file and this solved my issue.

I was even able to start a nested Guest VM after this.

Alternately (if you don't care about getting nested Virtualization working), I found another way to avoid the shutdown issue. I discovered that I could just disable and stop the libvirt-guest service (from the System/Services panel) to avoid the shutdown issue (before I changed the VMware VMs .vmx file).

Good Luck.