Comments on: Creating and Configuring Headless VMs in VirtualBox

By: rbrambley

rbrambley — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:09:56 +0000

Adrian,

Glad to help!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:16:15 +0000

So glad I found this – it was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for this it is perfect. Easy to follow and still works with VirtualBox 3.0.10. I have been looking for something like this.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:36:08 +0000

To run you vm in the background use the '&' it's a linux thing so not only for VBoxHeadless

like this:

VBoxHeadless startvm MyBigVM &

By: Pierre

Pierre — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:36:08 +0000

To run you vm in the background use the '&' it's a linux thing so not only for VBoxHeadless

like this:

VBoxHeadless startvm MyBigVM &

By: For

For — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:44:56 +0000

When you start a virtual machine headless, shouldn't it go into the background? The GUI version requires you to keep a console window open, which I'm confused by. I'd rather (like in VMWare) start the machine and have certain VMs automatically boot up, unattended in the background, for use.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:03:39 +0000

Rich, Some addition might be:
– After starting the VM, the guest machine is booting (headless) so there will be a delay before you can connect to it.
– You can start up your headless VM with a menu icon (no terminal to leave open).
– Also set up an icon to shutdown your VM machine. I used: /usr/bin/VBoxManage controlvm \”Windows XP 1\” poweroff

-Jeff

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:57:31 +0000

Jeff,

Glad you like the layout. Have fun with it!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:16:23 +0000

Thanks for this. The run VM headless was what I needed to see. Also, love the layout of your walk-through. I need to make a bunch of them for work, I’ll be borrowing your layout.

-Jeff