Virtualbox

i wanted to start the vm inside of virtualbox on a windows-host while the host-machine is starting up, and shutting down, when the host-machine is going down.

i used the following tools to do this:

1)[virtualbox]

2)[windows service commander] [NullLogics] (can be removed later)

3)[srvstart] (SRVSTART.EXE is a Win32 executable and DLL which allows you to run commands as if they were Windows NT services.)

4)[hstart] (Hidden Start (or Hstart) is a small startup manager that allows console applications to be started without any windows in the background and much more. )

install virtualbox, and windows service commander, and unpack srvstart and hstart in one dir create a file called srvstart.ini, that looks like this

example:

[vbox_configuration]
startup=c:\programme\sun\virtualbox\virtualbox.exe

[pxesrv]
startup=C:\PXE-BOOT-UTILS\srvstart\hstart.exe /NOCONSOLE /WAIT "c:\programme\sun\virtualbox\vboxheadless.exe --startvm pxe_server -p 3391"
shutdown_method=command
shutdown=c:\programme\sun\virtualbox\vboxmanage.exe controlvm pxe_server acpipowerbutton

then start the windows service commander and create two services (screenshot) the first one is needed to configure the virtual box in the context of the Rights of "LocalService".

C:\PXE-BOOT-UTILS\srvstart\srvstart.exe vbox_configuration -c c:\pxe-boot-utils\srvstart\srvstart.ini 

the second one is to start and stop the vm

C:\PXE-BOOT-UTILS\srvstart\srvstart.exe pxesrv -c C:\PXE-BOOT-UTILS\srvstart\srvstart.ini