Hi, I''d like to write an SMF service that will manage virtual machines. Upon startup it will connect to all (VirtualBox|xVM) VMs on the system, and ''do stuff'' with them (collect their logs, be a watchdog for them, etc etc). I''d also like this service to shutdown the machines upon the host machine''s shutdown. Specifically, I /don''t/ want this service to "represent" the virtual machine in the sense that the VM starts when it starts and stops when it stops. It''s a management aid service, not an ''SMF wrapper'' for the VM. But here I come to a distinction I''m not sure how to express with SMF. Shutting down a service and disbling a service both trigger the ''stop'' method, but aren''t really the same thing. What can I do to distinguish between the two? Am I designing this incorrectly? Any help will be appreciated, - Yaniv This message posted from opensolaris.org