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Shutting down VPC from command line

Last post 01-08-2005 7:54 AM by Robert Moir. 1 replies.
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  • 01-07-2005 10:50 AM

    • mattysan
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    Shutting down VPC from command line

    Does anyone know if this will be implemented sometime in the future? Or is it already in there and I just don't know about it. I'd like to be able to shutdown a running VPC and have the same options as when I shut it down normally (Save State, Merge changes, etc.). This would be a great feature to have. I could just kill the process, but who knows how that will affect things.

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  • 01-08-2005 7:54 AM In reply to

    Shutting down VPC from command line

    I think its a matter for implementation in the guest OS, I mean to run a shut down & power off from inside the guest, and that should work.

    Virtual PC doesn't know how to shut the guest down - at least it doesn't for all possible guests - and the guest OS may not include any built in mechanism to respond to shutdown requests from the hardware, so a Virtual PC initiated shutdown is likely to either be ignored, or end up as being the same thing as simply killing the virtual PC process - and that will potentially corrupt data in the guest OS same as pulling out the plug at the wrong time on a "real" computer can.
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