![]() But to get over this here are my update to kdmurray's post.ġ) /etc/default/virtualbox file existed for me. On this version, the key file /etc/init.d/vboxautostart-service was not installed.Īs far as I know all the VitualBox and requirements were put in by apt-get, so I cannot say why the 'vboxautostart-service' file was not also provided. I had similar unhappy incidents trying this operation on the vanilla LTS. Reboot your system and your VM should start sudo service vboxautostart-service restart Now restart the vboxautostart-service to read in the changes. This will create a myuserid.start file in /etc/vbox directory (credit user who wants to enable autostart for individual machines has to set the path to the autostart database directory with VBoxManage setproperty autostartdbpath /etc/vboxĪnd enable autostart for an individual VM with VBoxManage modifyvm -autostart-enabled on ![]() NOTE: If you have changed group permissions for the current user, log out and back in again to refresh the permissions. sudo chgrp vboxusers /etc/vboxĪdd each of the users to the vboxusers group. Set permissions on directory to the vboxuser group and make sure users can write to the directory as well as sticky bit. ![]() If you are the only user you can just add the line default_policy = allow to the vbox.cfg file. Note: If the filename vbox.cfg doesn't work above, try naming it autostart.cfg. # Create an entry for each user allowed to run autostart Now we need to create the /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg file and add # Default policy is to deny starting a VM, the other option is "allow". The file should look similar to this: # virtualbox defaults file VBOXAUTOSTART_CONFIG which contains the location of the autostart config settings. ![]() VBOXAUTOSTART_DB which contains an absolute path to the autostart database directory and The following steps are adapted from the linked blog post:įirst you need to create the file /etc/default/virtualbox and add a few variables. A good tutorial describing how to do this is posted on the "Life of a Geek Admin" blog. ![]() You can use the VirtualBox Auto-start service. ![]()
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