I have the same issue with Xubuntu 12.10. It does not poweroff system if halt command is used. It happens both on AMD Athlon II x2 255 machine with ASUS M4A78LT-M LE motherboard and on virtualbox 4.2.4 virtual machine.
I have the same issue with Xubuntu 12.10. It does not poweroff system if halt command is used. It happens both on AMD Athlon II x2 255 machine with ASUS M4A78LT-M LE motherboard and on virtualbox 4.2.4 virtual machine.