Opened 17 years ago
Closed 9 months ago
#767 closed enhancement (fixed)
[documentation] Explain to users how-to run VirtualBox on Windows in background/as a service on PC boot
| Reported by: | Technologov | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | documentation | Version: | VirtualBox 1.5.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description (last modified by )
This is easy on Linux and a bit more difficult on Windows, but I wrote a (untested) way of how this is can be possible on Windows 2000/XP hosts.
Look at this thread with question: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1887
And my answer:
The way I see VirtualBox auto-start on boot working:
- After you start Windows, your normal user starts...
- (XP host) Start->Accessories->System tools->Scheduled tasks
- You make a new user: "VBoxUser" with admin privileges.
- You write a script (*.bat) that starts VirtualBox and your VMs.
- "Scheduled tasks" should auto-start VBox with different user "VBoxUser", with
admin privileges.
--NOTE: This is possible, if you supply "VBoxUser"'s password to Scheduled Tasks.
I think we need to add that to VBox documentation (if it lacks)
-Technologov
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
comment:3 by , 17 years ago
update: There seems to be potential solution at: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=16914#16914
-Technologov
comment:4 by , 17 years ago
| Component: | other → documentation |
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comment:5 by , 9 months ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
This has been resolved with VirtualBox 6.0, see https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#autostart-windows
Another problem: I see no way to auto-shutdown VMs on host shutdown/restart. Perhaps it's too early to integrate this idea anywhere... Sorry.
-Technologov