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authorWinter <winter@winter.cafe>2023-01-02 10:36:41 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-01-02 07:36:41 -0800
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darwin.builder: prefer shutting down over halting VM (#208450)
This is preferable because it prevents things like disk corruption (requiring the user to delete the disk image when starting up) that I consistently ran into.
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@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ nixos login:
 ```
 
 > Note: When you need to stop the VM, type `Ctrl`-`a` + `c` to open the `qemu`
-> prompt and then type `quit` followed by `Enter`
+> prompt and then type `system_powerdown` followed by `Enter`, or run `shutdown now`
+> as the `builder` user (e.g. `ssh -i keys/builder_ed25519 builder@localhost shutdown now`)
 
 To delegate builds to the remote builder, add the following options to your
 `nix.conf` file: