Comments on: VirtualBox init.d service autostart script

By: Alex Amiryan

Alex Amiryan — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:30:26 +0000

If you get this message it means that you are using not Fedora linux. This script is for Fedora.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:44:59 +0000

Here is what I get when I run “service vbox start”:
Starting Virtual Box Machines: WindowsXPProfessional /etc/init.d/vbox: line 46: failure: command not found

By: Alex Amiryan

Alex Amiryan — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:14:23 +0000

The thing is that you have to copy this script to /etc/init.d/vbox and you don’t have to run it from terminal. Make:
chkconfig –add vbox
chkconfig vbox on
and then
service vbox start

Good luck!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:35:49 +0000

When I run the vbox script in a terminal I get
“Usage: {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}”
and nothing happens.
Any ideas?

By: Troels Liebe Bentsen

Troels Liebe Bentsen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:42:13 +0000

I have made a init.d script for ubuntu that also creates a private network for the vms and gives that network access to the internet, feel free to use the code.

https://www.it-kartellet.dk/dokuwiki/howto/virtualbox#initd_scripts_for_ubuntu

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:11:15 +0000

Sorry forgot to post my code

ln -s /home/{yourusername}/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml /root/.VirtualBox/

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:51:11 +0000

Awesome work thank you for sharing. I two have been a VMWare man until it looks like the anyany patches have stopped (plus a couple of years of can’t be ass’ed upgrading from fedora 8). Their fault for not making fedora a accepted host. VBox is looking good except for this startup problem.

I had to make a symbolic link from my home directory to root. As I made my vms within the gui logged in as myself. This way VBoxManage could list them.

For some reason there still not starting up but it’s a work in progress

By: Pierre M

Pierre M — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:30:21 +0000

Excellent! Works great. Been looking for this for months.

Notes:
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Watchout for word wrap when pasteing into Nano, I re-did it but used vi the second time.

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/vbox
chmod 644 /etc/sysconfig/vbox

No Spaces!
VBOX_AUTOSTART=”myvbox”

chkconfig –add vbox
chkconfig –level 3 vbox on
chkconfig –list | grep vbox
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Great job.

By: Alex Amiryan

Alex Amiryan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:26:24 +0000

Thank you very much.

By: Crasty

Crasty — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:28:27 +0000

I read a few topics. I respect your work and added blog to favorites.