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Automatic startup of guests at host boot

Posted: 9. Mar 2010, 01:35
by ajbrehm
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?

Re: Automatic startup of guests at host boot

Posted: 9. Mar 2010, 12:07
by ajbrehm
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.