On 28/02/11 16:04, Chris G wrote:
Getting the virtual machine to *start* is generally fairly easy,
Indeed, all I needed there was a batch file: @echo off "c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage" startvm "my vm name" .. whilst noting that "my vm name" is case sensitive, which threw me to start with, it being a Windows host and all.
Shutting the guest down and giving it time to shut down before the host system pulls the plug on it is *much* more difficult.
That's what I thought :-(
I did get my box to respond to the ACPI shutdown as issued from VirtualBox's Machine menu, simply with: sudo apt-get install acpid .. which was a lot simpler than I expected from the first few pages of ramblings that I came across.
But as you say, unless that's triggered on shutdown that's not a huge benefit to me...
So I'm not much help really, I'm just comiserating! :-)
Thanks anyway!