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is there a way to poweroff the vm programmatically from within the Guest OS? (assuming Windows Additions are installed in that guest)

this is the situation: the VM has a snapshot, when started it performs some processing. when processing is complete, it shuts down the guest, and a batch on the host restores the snapshot and runs the vm again.

i would like to avoid shutting down the guest gracefully. it's a waste of time because the vm is restored from snapshot anyway each time. we need a statistically significant number of iterations (>10,000) and would like to do them as quickly as possible.

If a batchfile on the Host starts the VM you might as well add a waiting routine for a file to appear on a shared folder that you create from the Guest, then kill the VM and restart.

thank you, i forgot about shared folders!