(solved) say ok to the autocapture dialogue from the cli

[strycat]

I ssh to my machine with VirtualBox on it. I issue the command:

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VBoxManage startvm vb17-shibboleth-rhel6

I get the message:

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Waiting for VM "vb17-shibboleth-rhel6" to power on...

and I wait and wait and wait and nothing happens. So I Ctrl-C and try again. That gives me a horrible error about being in the wrong state. After more tinkering, I give up and decide to figure it out when I'm back in the office and can see what is going on with it.

So today I use the GUI and start the "aborted" machine. From the GUI everything works fine. Again using the GUI I poweroff and save the state.

I then try to repeat what I did from the command line. I got the same problem with it appearing to wait forever to power on. However I noticed on the host, it was waiting for me to click OK to the autocapture warning. Once I did, the command line then showed:

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VM "vb17-shibboleth-rhel6" has been successfully started.

and everything was good at that point.

So my question is how do I start the VM from the command line and not need to have access to the host's gui to click on OK?

[mpack]

I'm not sure what "autocapture warning" you are referring to. I have a vague memory of a dialog that disappears once you've installed the GAs. And does the dialog not have a "do not show this message again" checkbox?

[noteirak]

Do you need to see the VM console or you use ways like RDP or SSH ot connect to the VM?
Iy you don't need ther console, you can always add --type headless at the end of the vboxmanage command.

Else, see mpack's answer.

[strycat]

Do you need to see the VM console or you use ways like RDP or SSH ot connect to the VM?
Iy you don't need ther console, you can always add --type headless at the end of the vboxmanage command.

Else, see mpack's answer.

Thanks this worked!