Why does VirtualBox keep launching on boot?
Why does VirtualBox keep launching on boot?
Sorry if this kind of question isn't allowed here, but I'm at my wit's end. VB randomly started launching on startup about 2 weeks ago (on EndeavourOS) and I can't figure out why. There's no shortcut in ~/config/autostart, it isn't in the KDE startup apps list, and I can't find anything virtualbox-related with systemctl either. There's also no setting in the VB app itself. WTF?
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https://www.baeldung.com/linux/virtualbox-vm-start-on-boot
To successfully automate a VirtualBox VM to start at boot time, we must ensure we’re running VirtualBox version 5 and above.
By default, after installing VirtualBox, the vboxautostart-service unit file should exist in the /etc/systemd/system/ directory.
Alternatively, for systems missing the vboxautostart service, we can create a custom systemd unit file that will contain our configurations to run VirtualBox on boot. systemd is a system and service manager for most Linux-based OSes.
Didn't see you mention the autostart-service, and the article is recent enough that maybe it was added as part of an update?
vboxautostart.service does not exist