Virtualbox

Controlling Virtualbox from the Terminal

Starting/stopping/pausing a VM Now the fun begins. First, you must know the name of the VM you want to run.

• Terminal
• Bash
• Linux
• Windows
• Virtualbox

Shrinking Virtualbox Hard Drives

Derived from these instructions on HowToGeek Clean up files Clean up system files

• Virtualbox
• Windows

Start Virtualbox as a Service in Linux

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.

Start VirtualBox VM as a Service

Steps Ensure you are a member of vboxusers group sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER Create a script cat <<EOT > vbox_vm_start@.

• Ubuntu
• Linux
• Virtualbox