I probably need to clarify - I start all my vm's as headless (-type vrdp),
so your VBoxManage arguments might look different than mine, but you get the
idea.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Mark Ehle <[email protected]> wrote:

> I put a list of names of the machines that I want to start in a txt file
> called /etc/vbox/startlist.txt, then put this in my /etc/rc.local file:
>
>
> startlist=`cat /etc/vbox/startlist.txt`
>
> for vm in $startlist
> do
>     logger ===================================================
>     logger = Starting $vm Virtual Machine
>     logger ===================================================
>     /usr/bin/VBoxManage -nologo startvm  $vm -type vrdp
>     sleep 60
> done
>
> Works every time!
>
> Hope this helps -
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Leonardo Carneiro <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Alan Hoffmeister <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello guyz!
>> >
>> > I'm using Ubuntu Server 10.10 as host and would like to auto start my
>> VMs at
>> > boot time, then I won't need to SSH login and star manually all my VMs.
>> > Already googled it but nothing usefull showed up.
>> >
>> > Tanks.
>>
>> I think you may be searching for the wrong thing. Start virtualbox at
>> boot time is no different than start any other daemon/program at boot.
>> You'll have to put a script in init.d, configure rc.d and stuff:
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBootupHowto
>>
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