De Capítulo 7 do manual do VirtualBox (máquinas virtuais remotas) :
To start a virtual machine with
VBoxHeadless
, you have three options:
You can use
VBoxManage startvm "VM name" --type headless
The extra
--type
option causes VirtualBox to useVBoxHeadless
as the front-end to the internal virtualization engine instead of the Qt front-end.
One alternative is to use
VBoxHeadless
directly, as follows:
VBoxHeadless --startvm <uuid|name>
This way of starting the VM helps troubleshooting problems reported by
VBoxManage startvm
... because you can see sometimes more detailed error messages, especially for early failures before the VM execution is started. In normal situationsVBoxManage startvm
is preferred since it runs the VM directly as a background process which has to be done explicitly when directly startingVBoxHeadless
.
- The other alternative is to start
VBoxHeadless
from the VirtualBox Manager GUI, by holding the Shift key when starting a virtual machine or selecting Headless Start from the Machine menu.
O menu mencionado está aqui: