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Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and innotek VirtualBox) is a virtualization software package for x86 and AMD64/Intel64-based computers from Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products
Since VirtualBox-4.3.8-4 PLD package, you can autostart guests:
/etc/vbox/autostart.cfg
and fill which users may access the feature$ VBoxManage setproperty autostartdbpath /etc/vbox/autostart
$ VBoxManage modifyvm <uuid|vmname> --autostart-enabled on
You can use VBoxManage list vms
or VBoxManage list runningvms
to figure out the UUID or VM name).
If you're using vagrant, then you can obtain uuid from id
file:
$ cat .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/id 238dd504-f9f5-48c9-b214-cf64f16dc0ce