Hello, I'm using CentOS 5.5 / 16bit as a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation and have installed the "VMWare Tools" by running vmware-install.pl and vmware-config-tools.pl but can't figure out how to make the VM shutdown, when I shutdown the Windows PC hosting it. Does anybody please have any hints or scripts? Do I need to use any VMWare modules if I just want to shutdown the VM? Surprisingly I haven't found any good starters on the web yet Thank you Alex PS: Here is what I have in /usr/local # ls /usr/local/bin/ vm-support vmware-toolbox vmware-user vmware-config-tools.pl vmware-toolbox-cmd vmware-user-wrapper vmware-hgfsclient vmware-uninstall-tools.pl vmware-xferlogs # ls /usr/local/sbin/ vmtoolsd vmware-checkvm vmware-rpctool vmware-tools-upgrader # ls /usr/local/lib/vmware-tools/modules/binary/bld-2.6.18-8.el5-i686PAE-RHEL5/objects/ pvscsi.o vmblock.o vmci.o vmhgfs.o vmmemctl.o vmsync.o vmxnet3.o vmxnet.o vsock.o ( <--- not sure if that's the relevant dir) # rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel-2.6.18-194.11.3.el5 kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.11.3.el5 kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 # /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep -i vmware vmware-tools 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off # sudo lsmod | grep vm vmblock 20512 3 vmmemctl 16956 0 vmci 38308 1 vsock vmxnet3 37764 0 vmxnet 24836 0