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VirtualBox or VMWare Virtual Machine at Login

Sunday, April 12, 2009 by digitalpeer

If you want to start a virtual machine automatically at login you can stick one of the following lines in .xinitrc in the home directory of the user. This means that when a user logs in they get the virtual machine fullscreen, and when they quit the virtual machine it logs them out.

vmware -l /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Example.vmx

VBoxSDL -vm "Example" -fullscreen


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