<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Sure. Just install the euca2ools on the guest and write a script.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jul 1, 2011, at 1:07 AM, <<a href="mailto:Terry.Rankine@csiro.au">Terry.Rankine@csiro.au</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Hi Guys<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I am building an ‘worker image’ for an on-demand specific ‘compute this’ workflow.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">The image is totally aware of its success or failure of the ‘compute this’ task, and uploads its output back to S3 storage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Since the VM is the best thing to know about success/failure, I figure it should also be the right thing to determine its end of life (shutdown-dont destroy on failure for debugging, and shutdown-terminate-release
on success).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I would like it to automatically shutdown (and terminate releasing all resources it held – public IP etc) on success, and I would like the VM itself be able to do this. A ‘shutdown –h now’ put the image into
shutdown mode, but not terminated and never released the held resources. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Is it possible for the VM to ‘shutdown and terminate’ itself?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Terry <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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