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. )