One of my VM's is a Windows machine running some software and I need to actually see the VM (not headless). It's not a huge deal to manually click on the shortcuts or launch the VM's from Virtualbox Control Manager but it'd be nice to be able to have them auto launch when the machine turns on and logs me in.

I've tried using KDE's Autostart system, no combination of things I tried actually made the VM's launch. I figure if I create Desktop Shortcuts to the VMs, surely there is a way to make KDE "double click" on those shortcuts once KDE has launched, right?

Thanks for your help!

Ps. I see that there is a way to launch virtualboxes doing something like this but surely there is a simpler way?

I have not used Virtualbox in Linux myself, but have you tried to launch your virtual machines and then 'save session' from the leave menu.

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I have not, that might work, but if there is a power outage they won't come back on, even though the machine will due to it's bios config.

I know nothing about Virtualbox, but in virt-manager there is an option for VM's to "start VM upon host boot up". Possibly a similar option in Vbox?

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You don't indicate which distribution of Linux you are using or which kde. Which combination of things did you try? On my machine with kde 4.14.38, I put the 1 liner below in a bash script in /home/user/.kde/Autostart and it runs virtualbox on login.

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I am using Kubuntu 18.04.

I don't want Virtualbox to run, I want to launch a virtual machine in Virtualbox, not sure if that's what you meant or not. Virtualbox itself can create "shortcuts" which are icons on the desktop, I double click these and the VM launches. I've tried every combination of these Shortcuts with KDE's built in Autostart feature that I could think of.

I was told I should try adding a sleep before executing the shortcut. I will try that next.

OK, I misunderstood your question. I have android installed in VirtualBox and the script below in the same location as above starts android on boot. You can use either the name or the UUID.

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Thank you. I ended up doing something similar and they now automatically launch at startup as hoped/expected. I really appreciate the help. I really didn't want to go through the suggested solutions I had already found.