Always shut down and restart

[mille1j]

Is it possible to configure a Windows 7 guest on an OSX host to always shut down the guest and therefore always restart it when reopening virtual box? Yes, the resume saves time, but in my environment its a security issue that is easily solved if i can just get the guest to always shut down.

[Perryg]

You should be able to lock down just about any feature. See the following link to the user manual chapter 9

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#guitweaks

[mille1j]

Looked thru that, but really didn't find anything that seemed like it would address it.

[Perryg]

9.19.8. Action when terminating the VM

[mille1j]

AWESOME! thanks

[mille1j]

tried running this in terminal:
VBoxManage setextradata “Windows 7" GUI/RestrictedCloseActions SaveState
Still allows use of save state. nuts

must be some error in the syntax here.

[mille1j]

stupid smart quotes. so got this working:
VBoxManage setextradata "Windows 7" GUI/RestrictedCloseActions SaveState

and then, was able to use this
VBoxManage setextradata "Windows" GUI/RestrictedCloseActions SaveState,PowerOff

to make it so that the only option they see is to shutdown. So this is very helpful.

What would be AWESOME though, would be to not even have the dialog and for Virtual Box to just shutdown the PC when you quit it. Possible?