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Hi there!

I try to start a specific VM during host startup. The host runs under Ubuntu hardy. Therefor I added the line

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/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless -s anymachine

to my rc.local. But it won't start up. The console output is

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invalid machine name

Even if I try the uuid it won't do. The output is

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Could not find a registered machine with UUID {...}

The command starts up the VM proper when I'm logged in and issued the command manually.
I'm thankfull for any suggestions

Thx,
MM

ok, I had better had a deeper look to it before posting. The user during system startup is root and the machine was (quiet clear) created by another user so that the machine lies in /home/<user name>/.VirtualBox/Machines so that user root can't find them (since it is looking for it in /root/.VirtualBox/...)

I simply created a symlink to the users .VirtualBox directory and it seems to work that way.

If you had another (better) solution, feel free to post

MM

Search the forums or the User Guide for VBOX_USER_HOME and read what it has to say. Also don't start a user VM in root. Bad practice and dangerous. do s sudo -u.

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