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- Startup: the HW emulator is executed in detached mode (using ‘-d’ parameter) and then requires the console to be set as virtual serial line.
- Connection to the console will be performed using telnet on defined localhost / port. If there is more than one guest on the server, guests are started in parallel.
- Before the guest starts, the network interfaces used will be checked and all the offload parameters will be set offline
- Shutdown: a common shutdown script can be created for guests shutdown. See "Service management - Create/Edit guest stop script" for details.
- If the script does not exist, the HW emulator is killed without proper guest shutdown.
- If the script exists, it executes the customer defined scripts to perform a proper shutdown (using ‘ssh’ or ‘expect’ tool for example). If the HW emulator is still running after execution, the stop operation is considered as failed so the script must stop the emulator either by sending a “power off” at SRM prompt (AXP) or F6 key (VAX) with ‘expect’ or just by killing the process
- If there is more than one guest on the server, guests are stopped in sequential mode based on their order in the guests list (order can be modified)
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