not saving state with VBoxManage controlvm poweroff

[josh]

Hi,

I have VirtualBox box 3.0.0 setup on a Ubuntu server. I have setup a simple Web UI so that it is easy for our QA Engineers to create and destroy virtual machines. I am using the VBoxManage command to control the VM and on shutdown if the "VBoxManage controlvm <vmname> icpipowerbutton" command does not shut the machine down in time I simple execute the "VBoxManage controlvm <vmname> poweroff" command to shut it down. This works fine except for the fact that it saves the state every time I user the poweroff command. I do not need or want the saved state so all it does is take up space on the hard drive that I have to go in and manual clean up later. I am wondering is there some option or commad I can use to power off the box without leaving a saved state around?


Thanks,

Josh

[Perryg]

You should probably wait a little longer. How long does it take anyway?
Just in case this "<vmname> icpipowerbutton" command" is not a typo it is acpipowerbutton.

[kihjin]

In my experience, controlvm poweroff does not save the system state. To save the sate, you must do controlvm savestate

Unless that logic has changed recently...