On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:47:06PM +0000, Steve Fosdick wrote:
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 22:18 +0000, Chris G wrote:
I run xubuntu 8.10 and I want to shut down my VirtualBox guest machine when I log out. That is I want to shut it down automatically, I usually remember to do it before I logout but sometimes I forget and it is then shut down 'ungracefully' with risk to its contents.
One would have thought that there would be 'hooks' for running stuff at shutdown but I can't find any at all.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Glad to see from the other thread that you have found the answer to your own question.
On a related note though does VirtualBox support VNC? If it does there is another mode of operation in which existing from X doesn't forcibly kill the guest but leaves it running in such a way that you can reattach to it later and continue working. This can be good if you want to avoid a guest reboot cycle if you have to exit X and restart it for some reason.
VirtualBox cab be run 'headless' (VRDP mode I think it's called) and then used remotely from other machines. The intent behind this is to have a headless 'server' machine on which several VirtualBox guests can be run and then people use them as they need from other machines.
Is this the sort of setup you were meaning?