Opened 16 years ago
#3010 new enhancement
VM control on powerdown/reboot
| Reported by: | andrew.sharpe.7.9 | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | VM control | Version: | VirtualBox 2.0.4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
It would be nice to control what the VM does when it tries to powerdown/reboot, similar to the control you get when using qemu.
Currently, if a VM is started from a script it must be polled to check if the VM has shutdown.
Image trying to create an unattended windows install via a script - the VM reboots during the install (which is a time you can make modifications to the VM filesystem if you want) but you can't tell when that happens.
The same goes for completing the install - there's no way to detect that installation has completed (windows just reboots the machine again).
A separate problem is that linux guests cannot poweroff the machine after they finish install in an OSX host (ie, debian lenny).
BTW, major is is a bit misleading as a default/medium priority (I know it's the default that comes with trac). Wouldn't priorities of (very low, low, normal, high, very high) be a little bit more natural/meaningful?
