Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get my virtual machine to accessible directly from login. I've created a virtual machine (Vista) that I can start from the command line.

It works fine - allowing me to access some windows only resources.
I now want to have two users at login one for ubuntu and a Vista user that will log directly into Vista.

I've installed evilwm as my light weight window manager, but I don't know how to select evilwm as my windows manger or where I can add my line to start my vista virtual machine automatically.

Any help would be great.

Thanks
Chris

Which software are you using to provide the VM? Which Desktop are you using? The Desktop's Autostart facility may be the best way of starting the VM at login, rather than evilwm; I am not familiar with evilwm.

Right, Sorry - sort of assumed.
I'm running the Gnome version of Ubuntu 9.10 and I'm using Sun's VirtualBox to run Vista.

I was trying to get a window manager that was low in resources so I could allocate as many as I could to the Windows VM.

This from an ubuntu 8.04 system running VirtualBox 1.6.0 (but it it worked OK up to VirtualBox 3.0.4 when I changed from Gnome to Xfce and then from ubuntu to Slackware). Change WXP to whatever you have called your Vista VM.

Gnome Control Centre, Personal, Sessions, Add

Name: WXP
Command: /usr/bin/VBoxManage startvm WXP
Comment: Starts VirtualBox virtual machine WXP

I'm falling down at following what you describe - it looks like they've changed the layout and I can't find the settings you describe.

Try /usr/bin/gnome-control-center.

It may also be interesting to use System, Preferences, Main Menu, System to see if it can be enabled directly from the GUI menu (and to see what other goodies are disabled by default).

I started /usr/bin/gnome-control-center, but the option you describe does not seem to be there. Any further thoughts would be great.

Regards Chris

Hello Chris

You could start a new thread asking how to configure session autostart items in ubuntu 9.10 (Gnome 2.28?).

I netsearched for it but found nothing -- the documentation on gnome.org does not identify which versions it applies to, for example http://library.gnome.org/users/contr.../intro.html.en

Thanks, that's a good idea.

system => preferences => startup applications