I apologize if this sounds like a stupid question, but when you're shutting down your VM is it ok to simply "Power Off" via the console while the Guest OS is up and running, or should you first log into the Guest OS and do a "shut down", then power off the VM?
There's a differing of opinion here (were I work) and I'm looking for a definitive answer. My contention is that if you don't shut down the Guest first, then you're risking corruption of the Guest OS.
Who's right?