Autostart VMs on OSX host

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BOLD
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Autostart VMs on OSX host

Post by BOLD »

Providing a gui interface to autostart VM's would be awesome. I liked to be able to this in VMware.
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Re: Autostart VMs on OSX host

Post by mpack »

On what host OS? And "autostart" meaning when you boot the host?

VirtualBox does provide a GUI option to create a desktop shortcut for a VM. On Windows hosts this shortcut can be moved into the Startup folder to autostart a VM.
BOLD
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Re: Autostart VMs on OSX host

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on Mac host.

When the Mac boots It would be nice to have a gui interface to tell Virtualbox what machines to start, boot order, and with delay times. I am thinking of a power failure situation and the machine was rebooted.

I understand this can be done with some config files now but for convince a gui would be cleaner.

Thanks
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Re: Autostart VMs on OSX host

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Moving to "OSX Hosts" from "Suggestions". See Starting a VirtualBox VM at Login.
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