<![CDATA[Glump.net]]> Commentics Peter Your Service Script works on Ubunto14.04 but the VM would not start on reboot or Coldboot.
What may i do ?

]]> Sun, 07 Sep 2014 01:09:09 -0400 item_90 Haroon If your VM starts when explicitly told to (i.e. 'service vbox-name start') but not after a reboot, you may want to simply leave VM_HOSTNAME blank. Also, I needed to change line 127 from '-type vrdp' to '-type headless.' I'm using Debian Squeeze and VirtualBox 3.2.10_OSE.

]]> Wed, 07 May 2014 11:20:46 -0400 item_89 Knut Works for me too in a Debian 7.3 in a HA environment, but I had to swap the exit codes on line 180 to get the correct exit codes on status (runnig=0, not running=1)

Thx!

]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:14:09 -0500 item_88 TNT The vbox-service-template works on my Debian 7.1 box also very well! Thank you!

]]> Sun, 10 Nov 2013 09:09:40 -0500 item_87 Garyq Hi,

Thanks for your script!

A quick question....

If you have multiple VMs you want to start in sequence, what is the best way to proceed?

]]> Mon, 07 Oct 2013 07:30:42 -0400 item_86 Fernando Abel Gottlieb Hi Brendan!
Thanks for this special code!! I love it! :-)
Well, I'm using the code for a Linux Server (Ubuntu 13.04).
My server is configured like:
- RAID 1
- Various VMs
*- Snapshot Backup (actually programmed to 30 days)

* I changed your code to easily take and delete snapshots and if you are interested I can send you the code.
By the way, I wish your oppinion about that.

Thank you very much

]]> Tue, 03 Sep 2013 22:09:11 -0400 item_85 Steve The reports of your old service template's death are greatly exaggerated.

VirtualBox's new autostart feature only handles the start -- VMs are unceremoniously killed on shutdown. Not acceptable. Your script is way, way better, please keep it around.

By the way, I ran into an issue with one of my Windows VMs where it didn’t want to shut down. In the event of a server shutdown, I can’t have the script waiting forever for the VM. So I modified the script to take an adjustable timeout, after which the VM is powered off. Happy to contribute the changes if you're interested, email me for it.

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