User script to shutdown VM

[workermaster]

Hi,

 

I have a VM that I want to boot, and then shutdown on it's own. I got the boot part working, and got it to shutdown with the Windows task scheduler, but it doesn't always shutdown. So I want to shutdown the VM via userscripts. 

 

Here is how I start the VM:

 

Easy enough. 

I found online that I could change it to this to get it to shutdown:

 

Now for the problem. The VM does not always shutdown on the first try. Sometimes I need to manually run the shutdown command again. 

I would like to have the shutdown command run every 5 minutes until it notices that the VM is shutdown. Does anyone know how to do that?

 

I am not familiar with these commands, so I don't know how to make it do that. 

[JonathanM]

Not a direct answer, but Windows is really bad at shutdown on command because of mandatory updates. Hibernate is a much more reliable solution, make sure you have the VM client drivers installed.