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  <title>Default Action when Terminating the VM</title>
  
  <body>
    <p>You can define a specific action for terminating a VM. In contrast to the setting decribed in the previous
      section, this setting allows only one action when the user terminates the VM. No exit menu is shown. Use the
      following command: </p>
    <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxManage setextradata <varname>VM-name</varname> GUI/DefaultCloseAction <varname>action</varname>
                  </pre>
    <p><varname>action</varname> is one of the following:
      </p>
    <dl>
      <dlentry>
        <dt>
          <codeph>SaveState</codeph>
        </dt>
        <dd>
          <p>Save the VM state before terminating the VM process. </p>
        </dd>
      </dlentry>
      <dlentry>
        <dt>
          <codeph>Shutdown</codeph>
        </dt>
        <dd>
          <p>The VM is shut down by sending the ACPI power-off event to the guest. </p>
        </dd>
      </dlentry>
      <dlentry>
        <dt>
          <codeph>PowerOff</codeph>
        </dt>
        <dd>
          <p>The VM is powered off. </p>
        </dd>
      </dlentry>
      <dlentry>
        <dt>
          <codeph>PowerOffRestoringSnapshot</codeph>
        </dt>
        <dd>
          <p>The VM is powered off and the saved state returns to the last snapshot. </p>
        </dd>
      </dlentry>
      <dlentry>
        <dt>
          <codeph>Detach</codeph>
        </dt>
        <dd>
          <p>Terminate the frontend but leave the VM process running. </p>
        </dd>
      </dlentry>
    </dl>
    <p>This is a per-VM setting. You can specify any combination of properties. If all properties are specified, the VM
      cannot be shut down. </p>
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