How to start a headless Vbox at startup?

falkens · December 4, 2012, 4:55pm

Hi,

Where should I put this line to make my virtual server start at boot?

VBoxHeadless --startvm “openSUSE 12.2 Server”

BR Andreas

knurpht · December 4, 2012, 5:04pm

Please explain what you’re trying to achieve. With this minimal bit of info, we just have to guess.

falkens · December 4, 2012, 5:12pm

Hi,

Sorry!

On my openSUSE 12.2 server I use a virtual Server as web server.
I have to start that server manually if it goes down with the line [VBoxHeadless --startvm “openSUSE 12.2 Server”]
I would like the virtual server to start automatic when the server reboots or comes back on line after a power shortage.

BR Andreas

knurpht · December 4, 2012, 5:28pm

IMHO you should create a systemd service for it, but I’m not yet deep enough into systemd to help you on this matter.

hendersj · December 4, 2012, 6:04pm

On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:16:01 +0000, falkens wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry!
>
> On my openSUSE 12.2 server I use a virtual Server as web server. I have
> to start that server manually if it goes down with the line
> [VBoxHeadless --startvm “openSUSE 12.2 Server”]
> I would like the virtual server to start automatic when the server
> reboots or comes back on line after a power shortage.
>
> BR Andreas

Have a look at the VirtualBox documentation - there’s a new feature added
recently to automatically manage VMs at system startup/shutdown that is
intended to accomplish exactly this.

I’ve played around with it a very little bit, but not enough to give you
a step-by-step set of instructions on how to get it working.

Jim

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falkens · December 12, 2012, 11:07pm

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the tip! I have tried to find the section you are talking about but no luck
could you please point me in the right direction in the documentation? (url maybe)

Br Andreas

hendersj · December 12, 2012, 11:25pm

On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:16:01 +0000, falkens wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for the tip! I have tried to find the section you are talking
> about but no luck could you please point me in the right direction in
> the documentation?
> (url maybe)
>
> Br Andreas

I started with the release notes at:

https://blogs.oracle.com/fatbloke/entry/what_s_new_in_oracle

There’s a section on “Autostart” that links to chapter 9 of the
documentation (and the section about it).

Jim

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