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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="terminate-vm-default-action">
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| 4 | <title>Default Action when Terminating the VM</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>You can define a specific action for terminating a VM. In contrast to the setting decribed in the previous
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| 8 | section, this setting allows only one action when the user terminates the VM. No exit menu is shown. Use the
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| 9 | following command: </p>
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| 10 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> GUI/DefaultCloseAction <varname>action</varname>
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| 11 | </pre>
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| 12 | <p><varname>action</varname> is one of the following:
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| 13 | </p>
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| 14 | <dl>
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| 15 | <dlentry>
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| 16 | <dt>
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| 17 | <codeph>SaveState</codeph>
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| 18 | </dt>
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| 19 | <dd>
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| 20 | <p>Save the VM state before terminating the VM process. </p>
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| 21 | </dd>
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| 22 | </dlentry>
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| 23 | <dlentry>
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| 24 | <dt>
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| 25 | <codeph>Shutdown</codeph>
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| 26 | </dt>
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| 27 | <dd>
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| 28 | <p>The VM is shut down by sending the ACPI power-off event to the guest. </p>
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| 29 | </dd>
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| 30 | </dlentry>
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| 31 | <dlentry>
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| 32 | <dt>
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| 33 | <codeph>PowerOff</codeph>
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| 34 | </dt>
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| 35 | <dd>
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| 36 | <p>The VM is powered off. </p>
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| 37 | </dd>
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| 38 | </dlentry>
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| 39 | <dlentry>
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| 40 | <dt>
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| 41 | <codeph>PowerOffRestoringSnapshot</codeph>
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| 42 | </dt>
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| 43 | <dd>
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| 44 | <p>The VM is powered off and the saved state returns to the last snapshot. </p>
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| 45 | </dd>
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| 46 | </dlentry>
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| 47 | <dlentry>
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| 48 | <dt>
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| 49 | <codeph>Detach</codeph>
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| 50 | </dt>
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| 51 | <dd>
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| 52 | <p>Terminate the frontend but leave the VM process running. </p>
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| 53 | </dd>
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| 54 | </dlentry>
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| 55 | </dl>
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| 56 | <p>This is a per-VM setting. You can specify any combination of properties. If all properties are specified, the VM
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| 57 | cannot be shut down. </p>
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| 58 | </body>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | </topic>
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