Starting guests on Windows with NO windows at all...

mr-rick · Post by **mr-rick** » 3. Dec 2008, 20:36

Hi...

I've been trying create virtual guests with absolutely NO windows. I can use the -vrdp but that still pops up a silly window with:

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VirtualBox Headless Interface 2.0.6
(C) 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved

Listening on port 3389

I don't even want this window. I've tried:

cygwin - can't start Vbox from cygwin bash shell. In fact, the bash shell doesn't even know about Vbox and cannot list configured VMs.
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```
$ VBoxManage.exe list vms
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.0.6
(C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
```
converting a perl script to start it into a service
using AT command under windows

The only thing that even works a little bit are some shareware/freeware window hiding programs.

I suspect the problem has more to do with Windows than with Vbox, but is there any way to achieve this?

Rick

Post by **Sasquatch** » 3. Dec 2008, 21:29

You might want to check the service topic that's a sticky in this forum.

mr-rick · Post by **mr-rick** » 3. Dec 2008, 23:42

Doh! Thanks.

dolzenko · Post by **dolzenko** » 27. Dec 2008, 20:46

why not just?

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start "" /b VBoxHeadless -startvm "VM_Name" -vrdp=off

Post by **Sasquatch** » 27. Dec 2008, 22:19

dolzenko wrote:why not just?
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start "" /b VBoxHeadless -startvm "VM_Name" -vrdp=off

Because that will leave a command prompt running. Closing that prompt will close the VM.

Post by **TerryE** » 28. Dec 2008, 14:07

Yup, a -systray option would be great for windows systems, but so far this hasn't been seen as a priority by the Dev team.

Post by **baf** » 28. Dec 2008, 14:44

Take a look at http://www.turtle.dds.nl/run/ its a program to start something without a dos box
or this one looks easier to use http://www.commandline.co.uk/chp/

dolzenko · Post by **dolzenko** » 28. Dec 2008, 18:44

Sasquatch wrote:
dolzenko wrote:why not just?
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start "" /b VBoxHeadless -startvm "VM_Name" -vrdp=off
Because that will leave a command prompt running. Closing that prompt will close the VM.

In short - no, it wont, you can safely close the prompt from which the command was issued

Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command.

START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
[/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL]
[/WAIT] [/B] [command/program]
[parameters]
...
B Start application without creating a new window. The
application has ^C handling ignored. Unless the application
enables ^C processing, ^Break is the only way to interrupt
the application