Articulos de referencia

​https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#autostart

​http://www.vionblog.com/virtualbox-4-3-autostart-debian-wheezy/

Como root:

1. Editar el archivo virtualbox

    nano /etc/default/virtualbox
   

agregar estas lineas en el archivo creado:

 VBOXAUTOSTART_DB=/etc/vbox
 VBOXAUTOSTART_CONFIG=/etc/vbox/autostart.conf

2. Cambiar los permisos a la carpeta vbox

    chgrp vboxusers /etc/vbox
    chmod 1775 /etc/vbox
   

Create the /etc/vbox/autostart.conf and add this users that you want autostart to be enabled, my users for running the virtual machines is vbox

vi /etc/vbox/autostart.conf

# Default policy is to deny starting a VM, the other option is "allow". default_policy = deny

# user vbox is allowed to start virtual machines but starting them # will be delayed for 10 seconds vbox = {

allow = true startup_delay = 10

}

Now login as vbox and enable autostart on the machines you want to start automatically, i will do it for two machines called VirtualMachine1 and VirtualMachine2

VBoxManage setproperty autostartdbpath /etc/vbox VBoxManage modifyvm VirtualMachine1 --autostart-enabled on VBoxManage modifyvm VirtualMachine2 --autostart-enabled on

Now, as root run this command, or reboot your server:

/etc/init.d/vboxautostart-service start