Autostarting a VirtualBox VM headless in Windows

Posted by vdiozguy on Oracle Blogs See other posts from Oracle Blogs or by vdiozguy
Published on Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:41:17 -0500 Indexed on 2012/04/14 5:35 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 222

Filed under:

/Virtual Desktop

Do you have a VM that you want to start when your Windows box boots? Easy...

Add a .bat file to your Startup programs at
C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Containing the following call:
"C:\Program Files\HSTART\hstart64.exe" /NOCONSOLE /SILENT "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\vboxheadless.exe --startvm MYVM"

If that VM has Secure Global Desktop and it has a published app that points to your PC, well... ;)

Related posts about /Virtual Desktop

Display particular data into a file

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I'm new to Ubuntu and have been using it for a couple of weeks now. Recently I encountered a problem where in I had to display a particular data on to a file. Here is the output displayed on the terminal. Potential vulnerability found (CVE-2009-4028) CVSS Score is 6.8 Full vulnerability match… >>> More
Computer crashes on resume from standby almost every time

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Core i5 2500K and ASRock Z68 Pro3-M motherboard (no graphics card, hd is a WD Green 1TB, and cd drive is some cheap lite-on drive). Since installing 12.04, my computer has been freezing after resume, but not every time. When I start to resume, it starts going normally… >>> More
Using a GoDaddy SSL certificate with Virtualmin (Webmin)

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
A client of mine decided to go ahead and move from a self-signed certificate to a commercial one ("GoDaddy Standard SSL"). The first service I wanted to move to the commercial SSL cert was Webmin/Usermin... However, upon migrating to the new SSL cert and restarting Webmin, I got the following error: [21/Oct/2012:13:12:47… >>> More
SharePoint 2010 MSDN Labs

as seen on Geeks with Blogs - Search for 'Geeks with Blogs'
Eric Ligman, from Microsoft, posted a great blog post this week listing all of the SharePoint 2010 Virtual Labs that are available from Microsoft. His blog entry is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/03/13/sharepoint-server-2010-msdn-virtual-labs-available-to-you-online-plus-more-sharepoint-2010-resources… >>> More
How to make a virtual tree control -- really virtual

as seen on Internet.com - Search for 'Internet.com'
A comprehensive article on how to make a CTreeCtrl really virtual -- good for handling large data trees. >>> More

Developer IT

Autostarting a VirtualBox VM headless in Windows - Developer IT

Autostarting a VirtualBox VM headless in Windows

/Virtual Desktop

Related posts about /Virtual Desktop

Display particular data into a file

Computer crashes on resume from standby almost every time

Using a GoDaddy SSL certificate with Virtualmin (Webmin)

SharePoint 2010 MSDN Labs

How to make a virtual tree control -- really virtual

Categories cloud