I want to automatically start a VirtualBox Virtual Machine at boot on a Ubuntu 14 Linux Headless Server.
I have tried @reboot via crontab, but the VboxHeadless command does not seem to work in conjunction with @reboot. I think its a timing issue.
So I have researched more and was guided to make a Upstart Script. How can I go about this?
Create Script >> Make it executable >> "Install" script via update-rc.d
cat << 'EOL' >/etc/init.d/StartVM #!/bin/sh #Edit these variables! VMUSER=user VMNAME=VM1 VMNAME2=Test case "$1" in start) echo "Starting VirtualBox VM ..." sudo -u $VMUSER VBoxHeadless --startvm $VMNAME & sudo -u $VMUSER VBoxHeadless --startvm $VMNAME2 & ;; stop) echo "Saving state of Virtualbox VM ..." sudo -u $VMUSER VBoxManage controlvm $VMNAME savestate sudo -u $VMUSER VBoxManage controlvm $VMNAME2 acpipowerbutton ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/StartVM {start|stop}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 EOL sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/StartVM sudo update-rc.d StartVM defaults 