Virtual Box Autostart

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shaun776
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Virtual Box Autostart

Post by shaun776 »

Hi All,

Having got VirtualBox to auto start machines on boot, I'm running into a problem of them auto starting after power loss and trying to restore previous state... any way to get them to fresh AutoStart?
scottgus1
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Re: Virtual Box Autostart

Post by scottgus1 »

I looked through the manual; best as I can see so far, there is no setting to control how the VM starts in Virtualbox's built-in Autostart.

There are some 3rd-party apps in viewforum.php?f=32 that can run VMs at the host start. One of them may provide a better experience than what you see now.
shaun776 wrote:auto starting after power loss
Your host should not be losing power. Hosts and VMs have gone pear-shaped because of power loss. A UPS should help the host shut down nicely, and a script or UPS service can shut down or save-state the VMs too. Cyberpower and APC UPS's have a script-running capability when the UPS goes on battery.
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