RDC to vm boot shutdown question.

[genesis1]

You will have to forgive me if I ask some silly or obvious questions, being totally new to this.
I've set up a remote desktop to my vm on proxmox host.
Now, if i'm in the guest running the vm and i shut down on the guest, it shuts down the vm with no way of booting again from the guest. Is there a way to boot it from the guest. I know i can simply log out of the RDC but that leaves the vm running.
I wondered if there was a way to boot and shutdown the vm from the guest like being on a normal pc?? Or maybe there is a way to link the shutdown button in the guest so it just logs out??

 

[Dunuin]

Which guest OS you are using? Isn't there a logout button already?
If you just need that VM at specific times you could start and stop it by cron so its not wasting that much energy.

 

[genesis1]

Windows 11. Yes there is a logout but if someone uses shutdown in the guest the vm shuts down and I have to login to proxmox host to restart it again.

 

[Dunuin]

Then you could create a script that runs every several minutes and checks if a VM is shutdown. If it is then let it start again.

 

[genesis1]

I'm a complete newbie so I have no idea how to write a script to do that.

 

[Dunuin]

Look here: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-to-keep-the-vm-boot-state-is-not-shut-down？.100565/post-434266