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Starting and stopping Virtualbox machines with a shell / batch script

Stanislav KhromovStanislav Khromov

Start

VBoxHeadless --startvm "CentOS Dev"

Stop

VBoxManage controlvm "CentOS Dev" acpipowerbutton

For stopping machines properly, you need to isntall apcid on the guest machines.

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