Starting/stopping/pausing a VM Now the fun begins. First, you must know the name of the VM you want to run.
Even if you have two vm clones with different mac addresses, you need to tell ubuntu how exactly the machine identifies itself on the network for the two clones to get separate ip addresses.
Sometimes its useful to declare your computer type in virtualbox as something other than a virtual machine.
Derived from these instructions on HowToGeek In this tutorial we assume a linux host and a windows guest
Steps Ensure you are a member of vboxusers group sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER Create a script cat <<EOT > vbox_vm_start@.