Starting/stopping/pausing a VM Now the fun begins. First, you must know the name of the VM you want to run.
Sometimes its useful to declare your computer type in virtualbox as something other than a virtual machine.
Derived from these instructions on HowToGeek Clean up files Clean up system files
sudo apt reinstall virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-ext-pack virtualbox-qt virtualbox sudo nano /etc/default/virtualbox VBOXAUTOSTART_DB=/etc/vbox VBOXAUTOSTART_CONFIG=/etc/vbox/autostartvm.
Steps Ensure you are a member of vboxusers group sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER Create a script cat <<EOT > vbox_vm_start@.