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      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="shutdown">
  <info>
    <revision pkgversion="3.14" date="2014-09-13" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.24.0" date="2017-05-02" status="review"/>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#use"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>mdhill@gnome.org</email>
      <years>2014</years>
    </credit>

    <desc>Shut down a box that has stopped working.</desc>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </info>

  <title>Force a box to shut down</title>

  <p>If a box stops responding, you can force it to shut down. This allows you
  to restart the virtual machine in the hope of returning it to its working
  state.</p>

  <steps>
    <item><p>Open the <link xref="interface#properties">properties view</link>
    for the box. If the box is running, click the menu
    (<media its:translate="no" type="image" src="figures/open-menu-symbolic.svg"><span its:translate="yes">settings</span></media>)
    button in the header bar and select <gui>Properties</gui>.</p></item>
    <item><p>Click the <gui>System</gui> tab.</p></item>
    <item><p>Click the <gui style="button">Force Shutdown</gui> button.</p></item>
  </steps>

</page>
