If this is done correctly, a command prompt window will display for a few moments during Windows' initial startup sequence. Note, put the name of your virtual machine in the double quotes. bat file in Notepad and put this inside: "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm "NameOfYourVM" -type "headless" Maybe you'll want to make it the name of your VM, but ensure the file type changes to a. Create new text fileĬreate a text file within the Startup directory (step 1 above), then rename the file to Whatever-you-want.bat. Any files or shortcuts here will be run when Windows loads your user account. Navigate to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup (note, choose your own user). More importantly, I wanted this to happen in the background to avoid having to visit VirtualBox's GUI each time-at least version 5 finally introduces startup options in a dropdown menu rather than knowing to secretly shift+click for a headless launch, but I want automation. Launch VM on startupĪnyway, since I'm basically SSHd into this VM all day, I wanted it to automatically boot when the computer itself booted up. Rather, I setup a Samba share and connect with files, which works well. to open the current directory in Sublime Text 3. One complaint about my workflow is that I can't run subl. I run a LEMP stack for WordPress and Magento, rbenv to manage several versions of Ruby, nvm to manage several versions of Nodejs, and so forth. Thus, my workflow for web development involves a CentOS virtual machine running in Virtual Box.
While I dual boot Windows 10 Tech Preview (it's amazing, by the way) and Linux Mint on my laptop, my primary workstations are desktops on Windows 8.1. Published JVirtual machine for development
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