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I'm using oneiric with unity. I want to find a solution to automatically save the state of my virtualbox virtual machine before I logout or shutdown because I always forget to do it manually. I know I can use Vboxmanage controlvm [vmname] savestate to save state in terminal. But how do I make ubuntu execute this command before logging out?

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This is not so much about VirtualBox, as it is about running scripts automatically in Ubuntu. –  iglvzx Jan 1 '12 at 23:22

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You can add the Vboxmanage command to your ~/.bash_logout file and it will execute upon the logoff event.


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