shutdown.exe shuts down VM host

[trw]

First, thank you to this amazingly well-informed and collaborative group for creating such a deep foundation of knowledge on the subject of unattended installs. This forum is a perfect illustration of the good the Internet has brought us.

I'm SO close to getting my first XP U.I. done but have run into an unexplainable glitch with the Shutdown.exe command used near the end of start.cmd. I hope some kind soul here will shed some light on the prob.

Simply put: I'm testing my ISO file using the latest VMWare. When the following line in start.cmd executes:

shutdown.exe -r -f -t 60 -c "Windows XP .."

It shuts down my system; not just the guest OS in VMWare but my actual hardware-based host system turns off. Besides reeling from the shock that an executable in the guest can impact the host, I'd sure love to see my install work all the way to the end.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[MHz]

Seems like you may have found a bug with VMWare.

Try disabling network and hardware options with VM, so it is isolated. Give that a try.

Btw, VMWare has a forum, in which you could post this problem for a solution.

[RyanVM]

, that's actually kinda funny . Not that it helps you much, but it works fine in VirtualPC.

[argon007]

I just tried shutdown cmd in start ->run in VMWare, but it is normally to restart in VM...

What VMWare version are you using? I use 4.52

You should download and update the lastest version if you are using the old version.