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I followed this carefully: How to start Virtual box machines automatically when booting?

It "broke" VirtualBox. I had to remove the autostart stuff and run a reconfigure command that VirtualBox recommended in the error message to get VirtualBox working again.

Created the file /etc/default/virtualbox

# virtualbox defaults file

VBOXAUTOSTART_DB=/etc/vbox

VBOXAUTOSTART_CONFIG=/etc/vbox/vbox.cfg

This is /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg:

# Default policy is to deny starting a VM, the other option is "allow".

default_policy = deny

# Create an entry for each user allowed to run autostart

USERNAME = {

allow = true

}

Then:

sudo chgrp vboxusers /etc/vbox

sudo chmod 1775 /etc/vbox



sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers USERNAME

It seems it is having a problem reading /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg

:~$ ls -l /etc/vbox

total 8

-rw------- 1 USERNAME USERNAME   1 Dec 14 01:37 USERNAME.start

-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root     179 Dec 14 01:31 vbox.cfg

Next:

VBoxManage setproperty autostartdbpath /etc/vbox

VBoxManage modifyvm <uuid|vmname> --autostart-enabled on

This created USERNAME.start file in /etc/vbox directory - Although the file appears to be empty.

Then the Error:

● vboxautostart-service.service

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxautostart-service.sh; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-12-14 01:41:57 CST; 27s ago

Process: 4002 ExecStart=/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxautostart-service.sh start (code=exited, status=2)



Dec 14 01:41:57 HOST systemd[1]: Starting vboxautostart-service.service...

Dec 14 01:41:57 HOST vboxautostart-service.sh[4002]: /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxautostart-service.sh: 2:/etc/vbox/vbox.cfg: default_policy: not found

Dec 14 01:41:57 HOST vboxautostart-service.sh[4002]: /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxautostart-service.sh: 4: /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg: USERNAME: not found

Dec 14 01:41:57 HOST vboxautostart-service.sh[4002]: /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxautostart-service.sh: 5: /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg: allow: not found

Dec 14 01:41:57 HOST vboxautostart-service.sh[4002]: /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxautostart-service.sh: 6: /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg: Syntax error: "}" unexpected

Dec 14 01:41:57 HOST systemd[1]: vboxautostart-service.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=2

Dec 14 01:41:57 HOST systemd[1]: vboxautostart-service.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Dec 14 01:41:57 HOST systemd[1]: Failed to start vboxautostart-service.service.