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This strikes me as a windows issue, not a VirtualBox one. How does windows kill applications that have not exited, how long does it wait to do so, etc?
by Aloha 9y ago
This strikes me as a windows issue, not a VirtualBox one. How does windows kill applications that have not exited, how long does it wait to do so, etc?
- SonOfKyuss 9y agoThe VirtualBox process is notified of Windows shutdown and power management events. It can choose to save the state or "power down" the guest OS. There is a setting to manage the default action to take, but it doesn't seem to work reliably. https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#idm9348 https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#idm9348
- Aloha 9y agoI wonder if its taking too long to save state, so windows kills the process and proceeds with its reboot
- breakingcups 9y agoThat's probably it, Windows 10 is incredibly aggressive in killing applications when rebooting for an update. In corporate settings it's even worse, we're currently having a glitch where, no matter what our administrators specify as policy, computers will just randomly reboot sometime after Patch Tuesday for a reboot. Without notification, without a chance to save your work. Just poof.