VirtualBox VM's autostart Ubuntu 18.04

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I have installed Oracle VirtualBox 5.2.18 on my Ubuntu 18.04 and created 2 (two) VM's.

I wanted to autostart both VM's at system boot. I created shorhcut of both VM's and copied the commands into the startup Application.

Now both VM's only start when I login to my user account. but I want to start both VM's without login. Please help me

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 25 '19 at 13:37

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To me it seems that you just want to execute two commands after startup but before you login. I am not sure if this will work with Virtual Box but usually you just add a line to /etc/rc.local. But make sure you add your line before exit 0 :)

answered Apr 25 '19 at 13:37

Freygeist

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 25 '19 at 19:48

It is not recommended to run a virtual machine as root and Virtual Box is not designed to do so. This is why a virtual machine always needs to be started from a user session.

If you need to run this session after boot you may enable auto-login for a user running your virtual machines as startup application.

VirtualBox VM's autostart Ubuntu 18.04

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