VM Guest Power APIs
The Power service provides operations for managing the guest operating system power state of a virtual machine.
Operations
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Reboot Guest Power
Issues a request to the guest operating system asking it to perform a reboot. This request returns immediately and does not wait for the guest operating system to complete the operation.
Issues a request to the guest operating system asking it to perform a reboot. This request returns immediately and does not wait for the guest operating system to complete the operation.
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Shutdown Guest Power
Issues a request to the guest operating system asking it to perform a clean shutdown of all services. This request returns immediately and does not wait for the guest operating system to complete the operation.
Issues a request to the guest operating system asking it to perform a clean shutdown of all services. This request returns immediately and does not wait for the guest operating system to complete the operation.
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Standby Guest Power
Issues a request to the guest operating system asking it to perform a suspend operation.
Issues a request to the guest operating system asking it to perform a suspend operation.
