Autostart fails [solved]

[xcomm]

Hi Community,

I'm just wondering about how to autostart a VM under Debian (Unstable) with SunVirtualBox 3.0.0 running.
Unfortunately the VBoxManage command seem totaly broken.

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VBoxManage startvm          <uuid>|<name>
                            [--type gui|sdl|vrdp|headless]



VBoxManage startvm "winxp"
 VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.0
 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 
 All rights reserved.

 ERROR: Could not find a registered machine named 'winxp' 
 Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports
 Context: "FindMachine(Bstr(VMName), machine.asOutParam())" at line 512 of file VBoxManage.cpp

Any ideas?

Best regards, xcomm

[baf]

Use
VBoxManage list vms
to see exactly how it is named. Remember case matters!

[xcomm]

Hi baf,

Thank you very much for the reply. It seems not being able to collect this information.
Maybe my installed gcc or similiar is too new as on Debian unstable.

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# VBoxManage list vms
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.0
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

As I have winxp running right now to use XenCenter.

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# VBoxManage list runningvms
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.0
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

# VBoxManage list hostinfo
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.0
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Host Information:

Host time: 2009-07-06T11:30:43.027000000Z
Processor online count: 2
Processor count: 2
Processor#0 speed: 2501 MHz
Processor#1 speed: 2501 MHz
Memory size: 2025 MByte
Memory available: 1240 MByte
Operating system: Linux
Operating system version: 2.6.29-2-686

Best regards, xcomm

[baf]

Did you create this guest as root or as you?
VBox has one machine list per user so root will only see roots machines not yours.

[xcomm]

Hi baf,

Thank you very much! Great - this way it works like a charme!

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xcomm:(~)$ VBoxManage list vms
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.0
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

"winxp" {47e1f6e4-59f8-4a75-892f-12780382e2b8}
xcomm:(~)$ VBoxManage startvm winxp
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.0
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Waiting for the remote session to open...
Remote session has been successfully opened.

Best regard, xcomm