How to start headless VMs from the GUI

[John W]

The release notes indicate "allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI". How is this done? I start VirtualBox, select the VM, Settings, Display. There does not appear to have a setting for headless mode. What am I missing?

[Björn König]

The release notes indicate "allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI". How is this done? I start VirtualBox, select the VM, Settings, Display. There does not appear to have a setting for headless mode. What am I missing?

You miss nothing. You can't start headless VMs from the GUI. There is a third-party tool, called VBoxHeadlessTray, which allows to manage VMs from tray. As far as I know it doesn't support VirtualBox 4.2 yet, but I think it will be updated soon.

[Zium]

To start headless : Hold shift down and clic start button

[John W]

Great! Thanks Zium that worked....

May I ask... this is documented where????

Thanks again..

[Zium]

May I ask... this is documented where????

Seems it isn't

[starlocke]

THANK YOU for describing how to do this! Running my server VMs headless is a real win for keeping system resources available for more useful things!