How can I start VirtualBox on a remote machine and log out from the terminal?

crisostomo_enrico · 08-08-2008, 01:46 PM

Hi.

I'm trying to start a virtual machine on a remote machine and log out from the console. Using nohup with both VBoxHeadless and VBoxManage to start the virtual machine is useless because they spawn other processes and if I try to log out I'm still blocked. Do you know any way to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Enrico.

jlliagre · 08-09-2008, 02:30 AM

Can you post the whole nohup command line you try that fails ?

crisostomo_enrico · 08-09-2008, 03:02 AM

Of course jlliagre.

I first tried with

Code:

nohup VBoxHeadless -s winsrv2003 &

and when I exit the shell the shell waits for the VBox process to terminate. If, for example, I shutdown the VB from an RDP connexion, the shell finally exits. The same thing happens if I try with

Code:

nohup VBoxManage startvm winsrv2003 -type vrdp &

Thanks,
Enrico