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Start or shut down a linked virtual machine.

A guest that is not answering can still be started. The buttons are on that guest's overview, under hypervisor power. Each one asks you to confirm.

Force off is a hard power cut. Shut down asks the guest to power off cleanly. Start turns the guest on at the host.
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Open the guest

Overview shows hypervisor power once this machine is tied to a host and a VM id. files01 is VM 101 on Lab host. The guest is not answering; the buttons talk to the hypervisor. start, shut down, and force off are here even when the guest is offline.

Hypervisor power box with start, shut down, and force off
files01, hypervisor power. Tied to VM 101 on Lab host. Nothing has been pressed.
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Press start, then confirm

Press start. The label becomes a confirm. Press it again to send start to the host. This shot stops on the confirm, so the guest is not started. Shut down confirms as an ACPI shutdown. Force off confirms as a hard power cut.

Hypervisor power with start asking to confirm
Start is armed. The second press has not happened.

Linking the guest is Link a virtual machine to its host. Start and shut down on the host's own guest list, including a guest that is not linked yet, are Start or shut down a guest from the host. A check that the guest is running is Check that a virtual machine is running. The console window itself is not part of this guide.