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TerryE
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Post by TerryE »

A to your Q2: When you start a VM it will automatically pickup from any saved state

A to your Q3+Q1: You need to read on in 8.6:
Note: We recommend to start virtual machines directly by running the respective front-end, as you might otherwise miss important error and state information that VirtualBox may display on the console. This is especially important for front-ends other than VirtualBox, our graphical user interface, because those cannot display error messages in a popup window. See chapter 7.4.1, VBoxHeadless, the VRDP-only server, page 91 for more information.
In other words whilst you can continue to use the startvm command, they prefer you just to start the relevant front-end directly e.g. VBoxSDL or VBoxHeadless.

VRDP allows you to connect to the VM from another machine but does not support the seamless mode.
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ToddAndMargo
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Post by ToddAndMargo »

That explains it. I ignored the comment below my quote as the VM
was being re-started from a crontab script that I had no interactive
control over.

Thank you for all the help and thank you for putting up with
the 50 questions.

-T
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