I realize this is probably a VMware issue, but was wondering if anyone here has experience getting -stable to be happy on ESX 2.1. I've managed to get 8 VMs humming along and their agent software (incl. memory manager) functioning in 5.4, but am having difficulty getting a shutdown command from the ESX console to instantiate a shutdown in the FBSD VMs. Likewise, issuing a shutdown -p now makes it all the way past halt but the host doesn't apparently interpret the power down signal. Ideas? Thanks much, -t