This is true, although I have never had a problem. Maybe I have just been
lucky.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Brett Serkez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mark's solution only starts the VMs, you said you wanted to also stop
> them, which is what the script above does, both start and stop.
>
> It is smart enough to hold up the shutdown of the host operating system
> until each guest VM has had a chance to properly shutdown, without it, when
> the host operating system shutdowns down each VM may or may not be properly
> shutdown.
>
> Brett
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Boris Epstein <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> Thanks, that should be easy enough to implement. Makes sense.
>>
>> Boris.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Mark Ehle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Forgot to mention, I am running Ubuntu Server. Not sure if this
>>> translates to CentOS or not.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Mark Ehle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here is what I do - in /etc/rc.local, I have these lines, before exit 0:
>>>>
>>>> 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 headless
>>>> sleep 10
>>>> done
>>>>
>>>> In /etc/vbox/startlist.txt there is a list of names of the VM's that I
>>>> want to start.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Boris Epstein <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the best way to have VirtualBox start automatically on a CentOS
>>>>> 6 machine in such a way as to have it bring up a specified list of VM's as
>>>>> it starts up at the time of the host machine's startup? Conversely,
>>>>> should
>>>>> the host machine shut down the VirtualBox's VMs need to shut down as
>>>>> gracefully as possible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any advice on how to accomplish that would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Boris.
>>>>>
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