How to run “Oracle VirtualBox (VBOX)” like a service after boot in fully background “Microsoft Windows (WIN)”

Question

How can I run VBOX under WIN like a service with script?

The trick is to run the VM without GUI. With this you can easily run VM on WIN server like a service too.

Prerequired is that exist some VM, you have some already. Below put its name instead {vm_name}.

Use build-in executable file “VBoxHeadless.exe”.

Create file

vm.run.bat

with

cd "c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\"
VBoxHeadless.exe -s {vm_name} -v on

run and test it – with WIN “Command Line Interface (CLI)” called “Command shell” – and VM will be opened running in background.

vm.run.bat

Use “Windows-based script host (WSCRIPT)” and language “Microsoft Visual Basic Script (VBS)” and run above file “vm.run.bat”.

Create file

vm.run.vbs

put code

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
obj = WshShell.Run("vm.run.bat", 0)
set WshShell = Nothing

run and test it – CLI will be run in background

wscript.exe vm.run.vbs

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