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How do I automatically shutdown or pause my VirtualBox machine when I shutdown or restart my computer?

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Mar 15, 20263073 views
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When I shut my Windows 7 computer down or restart it (maybe because of Microsoft updates or installation of software or me just being stupid) I want to automatically shutdown OR pause my VirtualBox machine just before it happens. Is there a way to do this? My VirtualBox machine is running Linux, al…

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Fix for: How do I automatically shutdown or pause my VirtualBox machine when I shutdown or restart my computer?

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Virtual Box has quite a bit of command line arguments that can be used to create a small script to handle the pause. You can create a batch file to pause it and add it to the Task Scheduler or via Local Group Policy Editor and have it triggered on s…

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