{"id":4,"date":"2012-06-07T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imrs.com.my\/v1\/?p=4"},"modified":"2018-09-18T12:14:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T04:14:16","slug":"how-to-set-auto-start-for-virtual-box-image-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/how-to-set-auto-start-for-virtual-box-image-in-windows-7.html","title":{"rendered":"How to set auto-start for virtual box image in windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have some problem to auto-start the VirtualBox in Windows 7.<br \/>\nThere is no setting auto-start Virtual Machine in Virtual Box &#8220;Preference&#8221;.<br \/>\nAt least until this moment.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/portsetting.png\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/portsetting-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"portsetting\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/portsetting-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/portsetting.png 657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHowever, the solutions is pretty much simple.<br \/>\nYou just need to create batch file to be executed on Windows 7 start-up.<\/p>\n<p>Create a batch file as follows :<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\ncd \"C:\\Program Files\\Oracle\\VirtualBox\\\"<br \/>\nVBoxManage startvm \"portMonitoring\"<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>save as VBox-startup.bat or something alike.<\/p>\n<p>where &#8220;portMonitoring&#8221; is the image name in VirtualBox.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/virtualbox.png\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28\" title=\"virtualbox\" src=\"https:\/\/imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/virtualbox-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/virtualbox-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/virtualbox.png 786w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, right click on that and create a shortcut into Desktop or wherever visible.<\/p>\n<p>Then just drag-drop that shortcut into All Programs -&gt; Startup.<br \/>\nOr something like the following folders.<\/p>\n<p><code>C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup<\/code><\/p>\n<p>You might need the administrator access before can set\/create the batch file to be executable.<\/p>\n<p>Test by rebooting the host once, and ensure the image name is correct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/portMonitoring.png\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29\" title=\"portMonitoring\" src=\"https:\/\/imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/portMonitoring-300x110.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/portMonitoring-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/portMonitoring.png 839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good Luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have some problem to auto-start the VirtualBox in Windows 7. There is no setting auto-start Virtual Machine in Virtual Box &#8220;Preference&#8221;. At least until this moment. However, the solutions is pretty much simple. You just need to create batch file to be executed on Windows 7 start-up. Create a batch file as follows : [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4,5,6],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization","tag-startup","tag-virtualbox","tag-windows7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imrs.com.my\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}