can autostart order be controlled?

[Dima]

Hi,

I have setup autostart on Linux and it works well. But I have a lot of VMs and I need them to start in a certain order (most important ones first).

Is there a way to control the autostartup order? If not is there a defined algorithm VBox uses to start things up?

Thanks,
Dima.

[noteirak]

AFAIK not possible.

[rayH]

Instead of "autostart" I have always used an "@reboot VBoxHeadless --startvm" crontab entry. For multiple VMs I use a shell script, called from cron, to start the VMs as background processes, cotrol dependencies, etc.