On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:22:00 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote:

> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Thursday 27 September 2007, Martin Goose wrote:
>> I have just started to use VBoxSDL -vm <vm> to start a VM directly from
>> a desktop shortcut.  This starts up the VM correctly on a PCLinuxOS
>> Host with Win2K Guest.  However when I try to shut the VM down it
>> powers off rather than saves state.
>>
>> Is there any way to shut down a VM saving state when it has been
>> started in this way?
> 
> <HostKey> + <q> power off the VM
> <HostKey> + <s> save state and power off the VM <HostKey> + <h> send
> ACPI power button event (usually shuts down the VM)

<HostKey> + <s> does the trick for me. Thanks.

More and more impressed with VirtualBox generally, and as the means to 
run a couple of Windows apps that I cannot yet replace with Linux 
equivalents!

-- 
Martin Goose 


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