VirtualBox as Service (Java code with Apache's Procrun)

[egoz]

I post this in the srvany topic before, then I thought I should create a new topic. I read about Apache Daemon's Procrun here :http://blog.platinumsolutions.com/node/234. And the result is awesome, I can use

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net stop <service_name>

to stop my VM and run without restart with VirtualBox.exe

I attached my program, and you need Java to use it It needs refactoring and documentation (License I guess) though.

To use it you must set JAVA_HOME environment variable, then edit the config/vboxprocrun.properties. Here is mine:

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startupCommand= C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\VirtualBox\\VBoxHeadless.exe -startvm Debian
shutdownCommand= C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\VirtualBox\\VBoxManage.exe controlvm Debian savestate
vBoxDir= C:\\Program Files\\Sun\\VirtualBox\\
dateFormat=[dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss] 

Then, in the VBoxProcrun directory type:

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vboxprocrun.bat install [service_name]

Service_name isn't mandatory, and Voila! It's done. To start and stop, you could use service manager or "net start" and "net stop".

and to remove the service, you could type:

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vboxprocrun.bat remove [vmname]

Sorry for my bad English, and feed backs are appreciated.