On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:28:44 -0700, Tobias Oberstein wrote: > Hi Bernhard, > >> > I wanted to configure multiple VirtualBox VMs to startup automatically >> > at boot time and generally be a nice citizen to the FreeBSD way of >> > starting up stuff. >> > >> > Using that rc.d script (see attached) you can configure starting up >> > multiple VirtualBox VMs from /etc/rc.conf: >> >> Sorry it's probably my fault because you're the 3rd one who has written such >> a script but we already have one for 4.0. > > Ah, ok;) > >> >> http://svn.bluelife.at/index.cgi/blueports/view/emulators/virtualbox-ose- >> devel/files/vboxheadless.in >> >> It is a bit less complicated and can also manage multiple VMs but it does not >> have separated flags per VM. > > Mine is more complicated, yes .. but it's more or less a direct > adaption of the script for apache22. > > Also, I definitely need flags per VM, since we run each VM > > i) under a dedicated user > ii) on a separate ZFS filesystem > iii) with specific VNC port/password > > i+iii requires flags per VM. > > iii) is for obvious reasons .. need to connect to each VM on a distinct port. > > i) is for a) security and b) management of VMs by different "VM > admins" which don't have to be root or have a user which would manage > all VMs. > > == > > I there interest to consolidate our scripts?
I've merged the features together and got the following: # vboxheadless_enable (bool): Set to "NO" by default. # Set it to "YES" to enable vboxheadless. # vboxheadless_machines (str): Space separated list of machines # vboxheadless_user (str): Default user account to run with # vboxheadless_<machine>_name (str): VBox machine name or UUID # vboxheadless_<machine>_user (str): User account to run with # vboxheadless_<machine>_flags (str): Custom flags for VBoxHeadless simple example: vboxheadless_enable="YES" vboxheadless_machines="FreeBSD Ubuntu1 Machine3" complex example: vboxheadless_enable="YES" vboxheadless_machines="vm1 vm2 Machine3" vboxheadless_user="vboxuser" vboxheadless_vm1_name="FreeBSD" vboxheadless_vm1_user="user1" vboxheadless_vm2_name="Ubuntu1" vboxheadless_vm2_user="user2" vboxheadless_vm2_flags="--vnc --vncport 4711 --vncpass <here>" I could not test it yet but will do that in the evening and commit the new script to blueports. -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"