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Saving the state of a VirtualBox virtual machine from command line?

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Mar 15, 202623999 views
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I am using VirtualBox on Windows. Is there a way to make a script that will close the VM and "save the state"? Or even just tell the VM to shutdown? Non-sequitur: I know you can open the VM from the command line because I have a shortcut to open the VM. And so I can just call the shortcut from the …

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From the VBoxManage manual: will save the current state of the VM to disk and then stop the VM. (This is equivalent to selecting the "Close" item in the "Machine" menu of the GUI or pressing the window's close button, and then selecting "Save the ma…

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