Setting a Virtualbox machine to start on first boot..

bledd · 26 Jul 2011 at 09:04

Does anyone know how to do this?

On the host machine, it's got autologon, I want it to start up Virtualbox and then start a specific machine

Django x2 · 26 Jul 2011 at 09:12

is there a bat file command you could strike up pointing to the virtualbox.exe and the name of the vm config to start? Then drop that in the startup folder?

bledd · 26 Jul 2011 at 09:13

Got it.. found it in the help file

"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm MACHINENAME

another handy one..

"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" controlvm MACHINENAME savestate

That save's the current state for a super quick resume, I've added that to the shutdown batfile for the host machine

d_brennen · 26 Jul 2011 at 09:14

Was going to say create a batch file like so

cd C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\
VirtualBox.exe

vboxmanage startvm <insert VM name>

robinbredin · 26 Jul 2011 at 09:16

bledd.
Setting a Virtualbox machine to start on first boot..
Does anyone know how to do this?

On the host machine, it's got autologon, I want it to start up Virtualbox and then start a specific machine

How I did it left me with a slow boot, because it still boots up as per windows, and the then boots up your OS in VirtualBox. But here goes,

Start VirtualBox,
Right Click on the OS you want to boot from,
Select Create short cut to desktop,
Then place the short cut in your Startup Folder.

Again it worked for me, but with a slow boot. Someone might come along with a faster idea.