Question

I have Virtualbox installed on a machine that I want to run headless.

If I ssh into that machine I’m able to run

VBoxHeadless –startvm “WindowsXP” &

and everything runs great.

I want to run the guest headless.

I put the above command into

/etc/rc.local

but it doesn’t spark up, after I restart.

I’ve written a bash script that starts the guest too and tried putting a reference to the bash script into rc.local but it does’t work.

What am I doing wrong? Doesn’t rc.local run commands after all the init.d scripts have run?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You have to run VBoxHeadless as the same user that you used to create the setup. Have you done that?

You can use the su command for this

su - <username> -c 'VBoxHeadless --startvm "WindowsXP"'