Can I configure Virtual Box on 10.6 such that my three VMs (Windows 7 x64, Windows XP x86, Linux x64) will start up automatically and run in the background when Mac OS X boots up and then be accessible via the virtual RDP connection Virtual Box offers?
I currently use VMware Fusion 2.0 to achieve this (although with Windows Vista instead of Windows 7) but Fusion 3.0 no longer supports headless mode and I don't want the VMs to run only when I am logged in and running Fusion or Virtual Box.
How would I configure VMs to run in the background and start automatically. With Fusion I had to create complicated plist files in /Library/LaunchDeamons. Does Virtual Box offer a more official way to set up VMs to boot automatically?
Automatic startup of guests at host boot
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ajbrehm
- Posts: 72
- Joined: 5. Nov 2009, 16:46
- Primary OS: Mac OS X Leopard
- VBox Version: OSE other
- Guest OSses: Windows, Linux
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
Re: Automatic startup of guests at host boot
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24244
That thread answers most of my questions, but I wonder if anything has changed as that procedure seems even more complicated than the system I currently use.
That thread answers most of my questions, but I wonder if anything has changed as that procedure seems even more complicated than the system I currently use.