[Discuss] July meeting: "The Virtual Desktop" -- VirtualBox does not have tools built-in to run a VM as a service

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 06/18/2012 06:17 PM, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
> I noticed that the program for July's meeting is to talk about
> virtualization on the desktop.
>
> A while ago I found myself wanting to run a headless Windows VM on my
> Linux desktop at work and have it start and suspend automatically when
> I start and shutdown the host. My efforts towards a solution are
> documented here:
>
>    http://www.glump.net/howto/virtualbox_as_a_service
>
> I wrote up an init.d script template based on Ubuntu 8.04's init.d
> script skeleton file, and it worked pretty well for me. This script
> currently doesn't work in the latest Ubuntu. I'd like to spend some
> time in the next month to make this as generic as possible or at least
> make working branches for Debian/Ubuntu and for Fedora-based
> distributions, and put up on GitHub.
>
> If this service controller script would be of any use to BLU folks I'd
> like to have the floor for a few minutes to show it off during the
> July meeting if that's okay with you Jerry (the presenter).
>
> Brendan Kidwell
>
>
This is very useful. I'll look into it and add it to my talk. We should
have some time. My actual demo will be short since VBox on a 1GB Netbook
does not perform all that well :-)

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