The Fat Bloke Sings: Thoughts from a Fat Bloke

A little something that had me scratching my head for a while and may save others some time....

When you try to close the window of a VirtualBox virtual machine session, a dialog pops up thus:

In the past, the "Send the Shutdown signal" has sent a Powerdown message which caused Windows XP vm's to gracefully shutdown.

But on Windows 7 vm's, the default Power Options when installed on a laptop are undefined:

So to get the previous behaviour you need to change the Power Options as follows:

Hope this saves someone some time.

-FB