Ticket #11367 (closed enhancement: wontfix)
Enhance VB VM Close menu selection.
|Reported by:||jb.1234abcd||Owned by:|
|Version:||VirtualBox 4.2.6||Keywords:||shutdown, power off|
The menu selection descriptions for VB VM closing are unfortunate and counterintuitive/misleading, in particular under UNIX and like OS:
'Machine-Close-Send shutdown' means "Close VM" (unforced) with orderly shutdown" of a Guest (actually it does 'shutdown -p now', equivalent to 'poweroff').
'Machine-Close-Power off' means "Kill VM' (forced) without regard for a Guest; but the "Power off" in its name often makes a user believe that there is "Poweroff" (orderly shutdown, poweroff like 'poweroff') of a Guest involved as part of the process.
It would be better if these menu selections were called: "Machine-Close-Shutdown-Guest" "Machine-Close-Kill-Guest"
No margin for error/misunderstanding. Thanks.