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HI All,
do I run commands chained to the closing event of virtualmachine?

virtual --------> real system
[on poweroff ] -----> [shoutdown -now]

You want to turn off your computer when you turn off the VM? Use a script that checks the VM state, if it's off, let it turn off your Host. This is not so hard to find with Google. There are plenty of example scripts for this.

I write this....

what you think?
You can improve this?

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
#Start VirtualBox and Close System under shutdown virtual
su - >user< -c startx
su - >user< -c VBoxSDL -fullscreen -vm winlite >/home/>user</.VirtualBox/Machines/winlite/Logs/VBoxSDL.log 2>&1 &
while true
do
        if [ \"$( ps -fu >user< | grep /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox)\" = \"\" ]
        then
            shutdown now -h
            exit
        fi

        sleep 5
done

Looks alright. Could use some improvement, but I don't have the proper knowledge for it yet. Test it and see if it works. If it does, you're done.

Here is an excellent post. I forgot what the URL was but found it by doing a google /bin/sh startup site:forums.virtualbox.org. There is an awful lot of good stuff in the forum you look:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1781

I had already read
and I took inspiration for some new idea
but I would like to close this system with the control of the process with this while loop

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Closed system when I close Virtual

Closed system when I close Virtual