SOLVED: Automatic startup/shutdown of Virtualbox with HDA

[techlife]

As the title implies, I am looking for a way (script?) to automatically start a specific VM when the server starts up and shutdown when the HDA does. The VM should be the last thing to startup and the first thing to shutdown when the commands are received. Are there Amahi startup and shutdown scripts that I could add a command for this to? Is there a better way perhaps?

Please note, I DO NOT run the server headless and I DO NOT want my VM to run headless either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[bigfoot65]

Hello,

Suggest you check http://www.virtualbox.org as this is software specific. Google might help as well.

[techlife]

Hi & Thanks for the reply.

I've spent the last two days Googling and trying to get this figured out. I am trying over on the VBox forum as well as Fedora. I was hoping someone here may have had a similar need and already found a solution. Or, as I mentioned, that there may be an Amahi startup/shutdown script in which I could add a command to.

Thanks anyway!

[bigfoot65]

Understand. Maybe you can set the vm to start using the CLI vbox manage. You could add the command to start the vm in your user crontab. Something like:

@reboot VBoxMange startvm [vm name]

This would execute the command on reboot. So if you can make it start the vm CLI with vboxmanage, then this should work.

Here is some help with the CLI for VirtualBox.

http://www.howtoforge.com/vboxheadless- ... -11-server

[techlife]

Thanks for the lead, Bigfoot.

I finally got it working by running it as a service using the info here as a baseline http://www.kernelhardware.org/virtualbo ... ra-redhat/ and pulling in a friend to help me modify the script to fit my needs. (For anyone looking at the link...the text file link they provided me at the bottom was USELESS!)

It took us two days of trial and error but it was well worth it. It works like a dream... =)