Hello.
I am an IT consultant and I have started using VirtualBox for some months now, with very acceptable results.
I need to automatically start my virtual machines on a WIndows host. How can I accomplish this? I searched the options, etc, but I can´t find anything..
Thanks in advance,
Ivo Pereira
IT Consultant
Portugal
How can I automatically start my virtual machines?
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Re: How can I automatically start my virtual machines?
You can put something like the following in a command file that put on your startup folder
c:\"program files"\sun\"xVM VirtualBox"\vBoxHeadless -startvm "myVirutalMachine"
Of course this will create a headless virtual machine which means you will need to access it using Remote Desktop. The help files explain this better than I can.
c:\"program files"\sun\"xVM VirtualBox"\vBoxHeadless -startvm "myVirutalMachine"
Of course this will create a headless virtual machine which means you will need to access it using Remote Desktop. The help files explain this better than I can.
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Re: How can I automatically start my virtual machines?
or try with this sentence in the command line:
C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage startvm "vmName"
Please note: "vmName" parameter is case sensitive.
Save the sentence in a batch file (*.bat or *.cmd), then create a new Scheduled Task to run when windows start.
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C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage startvm "vmName"
Please note: "vmName" parameter is case sensitive.
Save the sentence in a batch file (*.bat or *.cmd), then create a new Scheduled Task to run when windows start.
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hugo meza m
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Re: How can I automatically start my virtual machines?
Here is my .bat file
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cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\"
VBoxManage.exe startvm "vm1"
VBoxManage.exe startvm "vm2"
VBoxManage.exe startvm "vm3"
VBoxManage.exe startvm "vm4"