I know it worked successfully because I was able to access my Samba share (laymens: a folder with stuff in it that I share over my network to my other computers) from another computer WITHOUT having first logged into the machine that runs the Server VM. I set that one up exactly as I described above and restarted that machine.
#VIRTUALBOX VM FOR WINDOWS 10 WINDOWS#
I wanted that Server to boot back up if the machine got restarted (crash, windows update, etc) automatically, without the user having to log in. On another machine, I set up my Linux Server as a virtual machine with it's own raw solid-state hard drive. I can also open Task Scheduler back up, and verify that it ran successfully, or see what the error was if it did not (most errors will be directory errors from people trying to manually enter where I told them not to): When I restart my computer, I can log in and open the VirtualBox Manager and see that my VM is running: You are done! Testing the solution Testing My Fake Scenario Above (and how you can test yours) If you don't do what I show you here, and it ends up not working, it's your problem:įinally, hit OK at the bottom of the Create Task window. I would leave everything else as default unless you know what you are doing. This will make sure that if some pre-requisite wasn't ready yet that it will retry a few times to start the virtual machine and that the virtual machine won't be terminated after 3 days. Make sure your Settings tab looks like the following, but absolutely ensure you have set the items marked in yellow to match mine. My Conditions tab is generally set to the following: Startvm "YourVirtualMachineNameFromStep1" -type headless Highlight VBoxManage.exe and Left-click Open:Ĭopy everything except the executable and the quotation marks from Program/script: into Start in (optional)::įinally, put the following line into Add arguments (optional): and hit OK: Click browse (do not try to type this manually, you will cause yourself headaches) and navigate to C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox. Switch to the Actions tab at the top and Left-click New. Switch the Begin the task: combination box to At Startup and then Left-click OK: Switch to the Triggers tab at the top and Left-click New. What IS important is that you choose Run whether user is logged on or not and Run with highest privileges: I'm going to name mine after my virtual machine and put a brief description. The Name and Description can be whatever you like, it is merely aesthetic and will not affect functionality. If you feel like downvoting because it didn't work, or say "this didn't work for me" in the comments, I'm betting you skipped a step here. Right-click in the empty list to the right and Left-click on Create New Task.: Name the folder something memorable, like User Custom and hit OK (if you already have an existing folder that you would prefer to use, that's fine as well, skip to the next paragraph instead):Ĭlick your newly created folder, in my case User Custom, to highlight it. Inside the task scheduler, we're going to see a structure tree on the left side. Create a task in Task Schedulerįirst click the start button and type "task scheduler" without the quotes. You can confirm this by checking VirtualBox Manager itself: The folder name above generally reflects the virtual machine name. Navigate to C:\Users\YourUserNameHere\VirtualBox VMs This requires a couple of pretty easy steps, but I will explain them in detail to ensure anyone from with any technical background can set this up: The truly most-consistent option is to use Task Scheduler.
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