Starting a guest VM at boot time on a Windows host

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Marius Roma
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Starting a guest VM at boot time on a Windows host

Post by Marius Roma »

I am in trouble as I am unable to make a guest VM start from a scheduled task on a Windows host.
On page https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#autostart I read that "Starting with VirtualBox 4.2.0 it is possible to start VMs automatically during system boot on Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X for all users.": does it mean that on Windows hosts it is not possible?
If so, is the limitation documented anywhere?
If not, where can I locate the instructions to make a guest VM start when a Windows host starts?
I made several tests using either .bat and .vbs files with no success: when I run the command files interactively the guest VM starts with no problem, when I schedule them as scheduled tasks nothing happens.
Can anybody please help?
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marius
Roma - Italy
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Re: Starting a guest VM at boot time on a Windows host

Post by Perryg »

Its at the same place that I linked to in the bugtracker ticket viewforum.php?f=6
See the VBoxVmService topics.
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