Virtualbox Headless on windows

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Sitra
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Virtualbox Headless on windows

Post by Sitra »

Hello

I tryed to create a task for windows that will launch my ubuntu server but i cannot find a way to launch it as headless automatically on boot.

I tryed --type headless but seems not working

I cannot find Virtualboxmanage nowhere and i didn't know what to do

Can you help me please?

Thanks
mpack
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Re: Virtualbox Headless on windows

Post by mpack »

I assume you mean as a service, before login. Not simply headless.

I assume so because launching headless is simple: see "VBoxManage startvm" in the manual.

Launching as a service is not supported as a standard feature. There is a third party tool - VBoxVmService - that claims to do it. See the sticky topic in "Windows Hosts".
Sitra
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Re: Virtualbox Headless on windows

Post by Sitra »

Yes but i dont have vboxmanage installed... i dont know why i also tryed to update the software but without result...
mpack
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Re: Virtualbox Headless on windows

Post by mpack »

It is not possible that you have VirtualBox installed but not VBoxManage. The installer has no such option. Probably you are just failing to use VBoxManage properly, i.e. you are unaware of the need to type the full path to VirtualBox.exe if it's a Windows host.

See Run VBoxManage without having to type the program path.
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