Start Virtual Machines at Windows Startup

[alex1002]

Is it possible to start Virtual box Guest OSes with Windows Startup.
Thank you

[Perryg]

Yes there is.

And it has been explained here a lot. Put start vm when windows boots up site:forums.virtualbox.org in a google search for the answer.

Also you might want to read the Forum Posting Guide .

[alex1002]

Yes there is.

And it has been explained here a lot. Put start vm when windows boots up site:forums.virtualbox.org in a google search for the answer.

Also you might want to read the Forum Posting Guide .

I did search allover google. I got a script that never worked.
Thats why I posted here.

[MarkCranness]

"VirtualBox as a service" seems to get better search results:
[VBoxVmService] -> Discussion & Support
VirtualBox as Service (Java code with Apache's Procrun)
HOWTO - virtualbox as a service on Windows (SRVANY.EXE)
 

[Perryg]

Or if you simply want to start a VM you can do the following

Create a batch file or a CMD file in add this to the file:

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@echo off
cls
start virtualbox.exe --startvm Ubuntu-Karmic
@exit

Change Ubuntu-Karmic to the actual name of your VM and if it contains spaces put "" around it like this "Ubuntu Karmic"
Then create a shortcut of it to the desktop if you want to manually start the VM or put the shortcut in the startup folder.
For this to work you will need to make sure that the .VirtualBox folder is in your path statement.