Feature request: vagrant package should not terminate VM's

[binary-manu]

Vagrant version

2.2.4

Host operating system

Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64 bit

Expected behavior

This is actually a feature request.

vagrant package should not try to shutdown VM's if a user runs the command against a running VM. First, that may take down important running tasks. Second, if vagrant is unable to perform a clean shudown, it fallbacks to forced termination, which will leave VM filesystems dirty and to be recovered on the next boot.

It should simply tell the user that the machine is running and suggest to stop it, or an option may be added to force the shutdown is desired. However, the default behavior should not be taking down machines.

Actual behavior

vagrant package terminates running VM's.

Steps to reproduce

1. Run a VirtualBox VM (let's call it VMTest) outside Vagrant's control
2. Run vagrant package --base VMTest
3. VMTest is taken down