Virtualbox-automatic-startup-on-linux-host

The first problem you may encounter when setting up a startup script is whether it can find the virtual machine...

VirtualBox creates each VM in a seperate profile of a user (thus different users could have different "private" virtual machines)...

The way to get around this is to tap into the /etc/init.d/vboxdrv virtualbox service driver... BETTER (from the VirtualBox Support)

/etc/init.d/MYvirtualbox.sh

!/bin/bash

su -l vm_owner -c "VBoxHeadless -startvm vm_name &"

nano /etc/rc.local

/etc/init.d/MYvirtualbox.sh

DEBIAN/UBUNTU

nano /etc/init.d/myscript.sh

!bash/bin

chmod +x /etc/init.d/myscript.sh

sudo update-rc.d /etc/init.d/myscript.sh defaults

CENTOS/REDHAT

Either

nano /etc/init.d/myscript.sh

chmod +x

sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add myscript.sh

try it out with sudo shutdown -r now