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To power off the virtual machine — or shut down the guest — when the host
shuts down, select the appropriate option in the On host shutdown list.
4. Click OK to save your changes and close the virtual machine settings editor.
You cannot configure a virtual machine to start up or shut down automatically when
the host starts or shuts down until the host is configured accordingly. To configure the
host, see Configuring Startup and Shutdown Options for Virtual Machines in the
VMware GSX Server Administration Guide. You must log on to the management
interface as an administrator to configure the GSX Server host.
Setting Startup and Shutdown Options from the Management Interface
To configure a virtual machine’s startup and shutdown options from the
management interface, complete the following steps.
1. On the Status Monitor page of the management interface, click the virtual
machine menu icon ( ), then choose Configure Options. The Options tab for
the virtual machine appears.
2. Click Edit under System Startup Options or System Shutdown Options. The
Options page appears.
3. To allow the virtual machine to start up when the system starts up, check the
Start Virtual Machine check box.
Specify the period of time before the next virtual machine starts in the Continue
Starting Virtual Machines After list. Choose the number of minutes or whether
GSX Server should not wait before starting the next virtual machine. If you select
Other, a prompt appears; specify in the prompt the number of minutes to wait.
The System Default is specified in Configuring Startup and Shutdown Options
for Virtual Machines in the VMware GSX Server Administration Guide.
To specify that VMware Tools should start in a virtual machine before the next
virtual machine starts, check the when VMware Tools starts check box. If