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polybius

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Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 4

VirtualBox VM will not power off with 'halt' or 'poweroff'

The VM will reboot properly with 'reboot' but does not power down with the 'halt' or 'poweroff' commands. From within X, the shutdown command from the menu does power off properly. I'm running this in VirtualBox in headless mode so if I power down, it doesn't actually turn off (still shows as running) and I can't shut it down without killing the vboxheadless process, of which there are multiple for multiple VMs but they are unlabled. Last time I shutdown another VM

The question I have is what is the command the gui shutdown command uses?

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: VirtualBox VM will not power off with 'halt' or 'poweroff'

poweroff

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polybius

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Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 4

Re: VirtualBox VM will not power off with 'halt' or 'poweroff'

Thanks for the quick reply!

Poweroff does the same as halt in this case. I've had it work once while in console but it's not consistent. What is the syntax of that line? Or does it just run 'poweroff'?

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: VirtualBox VM will not power off with 'halt' or 'poweroff'

Just [c]poweroff[/c]

Try this:

[c]poweroff -f[/c]

or

[c]poweroff || poweroff -f[/c]

Usage: poweroff [-d DELAY] [-n] [-f]

Halt and shut off power

Options:

    -d SEC    Delay interval

    -n    Do not sync

    -f    Force (don't go through init)