12.3 - virtualbox autostart configuration.

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Hello.
What tasks are necessary be done for make a virtual machine to start automatically when hosts have finished booting.
Have read this post https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/444960-virtualbox-autostart-script-help.html, but does not help me.

And what should one put in /etc/vbox/vbox.conf

Help is welcome.

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On 06/07/2013 09:46 AM, jcdole wrote:
>
> Hello.
> What tasks are necessary be done for make a virtual machine to start
> automatically when hosts have finished booting.
> Have read this post http://tinyurl.com/md6vzsa, but does not help me.
>
> And what should one put in /etc/vbox/vbox.conf
>
> Help is welcome.

I use 12.2 with the following file in /etc/init.d/StartVM:


finger@desktop:~> cat /etc/init.d/StartVM
#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/StartVM
#



#Edit these variables!
VMUSER=finger
#VMNAME="Windows XP"
VMNAME="openSUSE 12.2 32-bit"
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting VirtualBox VM..."
sudo -u $VMUSER /usr/bin/VBoxManage  startvm "$VMNAME" --type headless
;;
stop)
echo "Saving state of Virtualbox VM..."
sudo -u  $VMUSER /usr/bin/VBoxManage controlvm "$VMNAME" savestate
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/StartVM {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0

In addition, I have /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13StartVM and
/etc/init.d/rc5.d/K01StartVM, which are links back to /etc/init.d/StartVM.

My VM is headless as I only connect to it via ssh.

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Hello.
2 more questions :
1°) Who have the responsability to call /etc/init.d/StartVM with the start/stop parameter
2°) Seems that the script is working only if virtualbox is running before calling StartVM
Regards

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Hi folks, since 12.3 and up will have systemd as default might as well do a native systemd solution. Checkout https://github.com/Jetchisel/VBoxAutostart/archive/master.zip and the instructions are there as well . Although i admit i always use the binary blob from virtualbox.org and not from the distro. cheers lol!

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Thank you, I will have a look.

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Actually you can cancel that zip file since i have that package as an rpm in my home repo look for “systemd-vboxinit” in the suse download page. Note there i s a man page too :slight_smile: