Is there a way to signal windows 2000 to shutdown when a specific program closes? I tried doing it by scheduling a task but couldn't find the shutdown executable, apparently it's only include starting in windows 2003. My next thoughts were with a batch file but I couldn't find any documentation on the command to use.
To summarize the comments & further information therein, this question is closer to the following:
How can I monitor a process on a Windows 2000 VM, running in VirtualBox, so that I can kill off the VM when the process I care about falls over?
Working from there, something like http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-guestcontrol would be the way to go. Create a process which tells VirtualBox to start your process & then perform the shutdown when that process terminates. You'd essentially be constructing a supervisory process outside of the Win2K environment, however you want to accomplish that, rather than trying to work within the environment itself.