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How to properly shutdown my CentOS VM

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Mar 15, 202623596 views
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Usually, I just do a sudo /sbin/shutdown now when in my VM and wait for it to logout into the bash shell. Then after that I just go to Power > Power Off. Is this the right way to shutdown my CentOS VM?

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Fix for: How to properly shutdown my CentOS VM

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Presuming VMware: if you have the vmware-tools installed in your VM, you should be able to issue the command and it will power-off the VM for you. This works for me with C4 and C5 VMs, on Server-1 and -2, Workstation 6.x, and ESX/ESXi.

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