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ACPI shutdown does not always work on a Windows Server virtual machine

With virtualbox, I use VBoxManage controlvm "$VMNAME" acpipowerbutton to shut down a virtual server when the host is shutting down. This works well when I test, but not in real world cases (i.e. when the host reboots for updates, or even sometimes…
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Linux guest graceful shutdown in Hyper-V

What mechanism Hyper-V use to signal a Linux guest to gracefully shut down? Somehow CoreOS does gracefully shut down, but another Linux doesn't (it is just abruptly powered off)
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Libvirt guest destroyed after shutdown

I have created a VM withLibvirt and when I shut it down whether forcefully or with ACPI, it gets deleted. I create it: deneme2 2097152 1 hvm …
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Shutdown Event Tracker Details

Call me masochist, but I actually like entering the details when shutting down a server. Windows Server 2012 R2 doesn't seem to provide a field to do that, though. Is there any way to add "reason" for shutdown via the GUI, not via command line?
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Run a backup script at systemd shutdown (e.g. copy logs to S3 before instance termination by auto scaling)

I am trying to send log files to S3 before instance termination. I created .service file in /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/upload-backup.service, which is this. Description=Testing Before=shutdown.target reboot.target…
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Is there a Difference between "logoff" and "shutdown -l" -command in Windows?

Is there a Difference between logoff and shutdown -l -command in Windows? They both logoff the current session. (Background: i had a Problem where the software in the costumers remotesession (w2k12) didn't ran correctly until i logged of via logoff…
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How to find the ip address of the pc that sent a shutdown command?

I'm a system administrator in a school. We have a classroom with 20 PC's in a domain, and all PC's use the same user to log in. Sometimes students use the shutdown command to shut down the PC's of other studetns. In the system event log of the PC…
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Is Shutting Down a Spot Amazon EC2 Instance Clean?

Not sure if this is supposed to be on SuperUser or here, but here goes: Q. If my spot instance is automatically terminated due to my max bid being exceeded, is it a clean shutdown -- as if a user clicked Start>>Shutdown ? Or is it a hard shutdown --…
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When is system scheduled for reboot?

Where can I find information about if there is an reboot scheduled and in that case: when, why and by who? I got this in my terminal: Broadcast message from root@my-server (Tue 2017-11-07 09:00:00 CET): The system is going down for reboot at Wed…
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PowerChute vMA server shuts down ESXi host after boot

I've ran into a critical problem first time installing and configuring a UPS connected to a server. Whenever I boot up the vMA server, ESXi starts shutting down all the VM's and then itself. It's like there's a power outage every time I start the…
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Prevent HDDs from spinning up before shutdown in Ubuntu/ZoL/SAS2008 environment

I am running Ubuntu 14.04.2 with ZFS on Linux. As I ran out of SATA ports on my Asus M5A78L-M/USB3, I bought a Dell PERC H200 card and crossflashed it to LSI 9211-8i P19 IT mode firmware to passthrough the drives transparently. This works like a…
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Add a Message to be Displayed During Shutdown of CentOS 6 and 7

When issuing a reboot or shutdown I see: [kbrandt@ny-kbrandt01: ~] sudo reboot [sudo] password for kbrandt: Broadcast message from kbrandt@ny-kbrandt01.ds.stackexchange.com (/dev/pts/3) at 14:50 ... The system is going down for reboot NOW! I…
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How to sequence a proper shutdown and startup of web services with systemd?

I am trying to structure the shutdown and startup of Apache, PHP-FPM and MariaDB services using systemd: These are the additional configuration files in /etc/systemd/system folder: # httpd.service .include…
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how to cancel an automatic restart in windows server 2012 after installing windows updates

Here's the thing - the "shutdown -a" option doesn't work, there is no "Restart Later" button, just a countdown timer of 15 minutes and no way to cancel it. What should I do? I read somewhere that if I lock, it will freeze the timer until my next…
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MySQL server (mariadb) auto shutdown without overload

With old configs, my VPS (1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB swap) works normally for almost 2 years. I didn't change anything from beginning. But I have this issue several days ago, MySQL server automatically shut down, while watched via DO Graph monitoring, I…
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