Win10 stop/restart from UNRAID VM Controls drop dont work


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2 hours ago, newmember said:

Fro the UNRAID VM GUI, when I try to stop the Win10 VM nothing happens.  When I try to restart the Win10 nothing happens.

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I am missing a Win10 driver to allow these controls to work?

 

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When you click on those options it just sends the appropriate signal to the OS running in the VM.    It is up to that OS to act on the signal.   As was mentioned in this case maybe Windows is stuck?  
 

Having said that I have often thought that there should also be a ‘Reset’ option as well that is effectively a Force Stop followed by a ‘Start’ so it works regardless of the OS state in the VM and is like pushing the physical Reset button on a real PC.

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6 hours ago, Squid said:

Is the VM stuck on a Windows prompt asking you if you want to force close a program or something?

Sometimes I loose access to the video output.  Like Win10 has froze.

But most of the time I would like to 'stop' Win10 from the UNRAID GUI instead of having to log into WIn10 and shutdown.

 

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59 minutes ago, newmember said:

Sometimes I loose access to the video output.  Like Win10 has froze.

But most of the time I would like to 'stop' Win10 from the UNRAID GUI instead of having to log into WIn10 and shutdown.

My Win10 VM's + Ubuntu VM's would, without fail, shutdown if I stop it from the GUI.

If it doesn't do it for yours, you might want to check your Power Options for Power and sleep button settings as the first suspect.

 

Btw, if your VM freezes then only a Force Stop will work.

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11 hours ago, testdasi said:

My Win10 VM's + Ubuntu VM's would, without fail, shutdown if I stop it from the GUI.

If it doesn't do it for yours, you might want to check your Power Options for Power and sleep button settings as the first suspect.

 

Btw, if your VM freezes then only a Force Stop will work.

 

 

Just checked

 

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never turn off

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Never sleep

 

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On 2/16/2020 at 10:42 PM, testdasi said:

Power & Sleep -> Additional power settings -> Choose what the power buttons do

 

Had that issue with alot of VMs ,

i mostly made WIN VMS , win7 win10 , server etc

some i created from a scratch some from vdisks etc

and none of them worked properly from the GUI when pressed stop restart , except force stop which worked.

 

So today when i finally got to the point when i want to setup a reliable VM backup, and make the VM backup script to work properly , i stumbled upon this post.

 

My settings were proper tho , when pressing power button > shut down.

so i changed the option to whatever , then back to shutdown , and now it works.

 

TLDR - windows and its features

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