Until then, the usual procedure is to manually shut down VMs and
applications, wait a few seconds (cached file-system data is written
back every 10 seconds), and turn off the machine manually (or via the
ACPI-CA mechanism).
1) I have been using Sculpt on real hardware. What I do for shutdown is to open "Storage" under "Components" and de-select "Use" on my primary "GENODE*" partition. I assumed that this would cause any pending file operations to complete, similar to a UNIX "sudo umount". Is that right?
2) Sometimes I do feel the need to reboot Sculpt, but potentially this is not completely necessary if there were a way to restart certain services. Is it possible to restart internal components? Most common culprits for me would be usb_drv, and the depot-related components. Ideally this could be done without the runtime system killing my VMs, but I suspect that's asking too much.
Regards,
Colin