
I was using vboxsvc, which is good, but complex and I was having difficulty making it behave the way I want, not to mention, since I'm using rawvmdk to wrap around a zvol, I need to chown the zvol before starting the guest... This is a feature being presently added to vboxsvc, but not existent at the time of the writing of SimpleSMF virtualbox-guest-control.
I also considered the built-in virtualbox smf service new in 4.2, but I'm told (haven't tested) that it only supports startup, not shutdown. (Can anybody confirm/deny the presence of graceful shutdown support?) I don't expect the virtualbox smf service to support the chown. Which means, at least for me the only solution is SimpleSMF virtualbox-guest-control.
Hope it's useful to other people too. Good luck.
