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The ''shutdown'' option of the ''xm'' tool is used to shutdown a guest operating system. The operating system will perform an orderly shutdown when it receives the shutdown instruction:

where ''guestName'' is the name of the guest system, to be shutdown. Note that the shutdown option allows the guest operating system to perform an orderly shutdown when it receives the shutdown instruction. To instantly stop a guest operating system the ''destroy'' option may be used (with all the attendant risk of filesystem damage and data loss): <pre>xm destroy myGuestOS</pre>