Shut Down the Guest Operating System on a Virtual Machine

 

Description
Shuts down a virtual machine named Windows 2000 Server.

 

Supported Platforms

Windows Server 2003

Yes

Windows XP

No

Windows 2000

No

Windows NT 4.0

No

Windows 98

No

 

Script Code

On Error Resume Next

Set objVS = CreateObject("VirtualServer.Application")
Set objVM = objVS.FindVirtualMachine("Windows 2000 Server")

Set objGuestOS = objVM.GuestOS
objGuestOS.Shutdown()
	

 

 

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