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Message 89216 - Posted: 14 Dec 2018, 23:48:58 UTC

Had to do a couple of restarts of Doze recently.
Knowing that there can be issues, I opened the BOINC manager, and quit it asking it to stop all tasks. Then went to reboot. Windows promptly informed me it couldn't because Vitrualbox was running and had open connections.

Don't know if this is a BOINC issue or a VM issue. However if BOINC started the VM, BOINC should be able to kill the VM and apparently it isn't.
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Message 89238 - Posted: 16 Dec 2018, 20:49:33 UTC - in response to Message 89216.  

VirtualBox service stays around for up to five minutes after the last connection to it has been closed. Connection is a virtual machine or some other program using it like VirtualBox Manager.

If you are sure all science app VMs have been saved you can tell Windows to force quit the service.
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Message 89246 - Posted: 17 Dec 2018, 1:53:06 UTC - in response to Message 89238.  

VirtualBox service stays around for up to five minutes after the last connection to it has been closed. Connection is a virtual machine or some other program using it like VirtualBox Manager.

If you are sure all science app VMs have been saved you can tell Windows to force quit the service.

Thanks for the reply. Five minutes is a very long time in computer terms, except for windoze to boot.

Always knew force quit was an option.
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