My situation is that I am running VMware workstation to run a LAMP server for some lightweight data collection.
My host OS is Windows XP. I have a APC UPS that is set to shut down the PC via PowerChute if a power outage hits.
What I am wondering is if there is some way to gracefully shut down the LAMP server because I am pretty sure that VMware will keep PowerChute from shutting down the PC if there is a VMware appliance running.