How to start Virtual Box service on Linux

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I performed a dist-upgrade and then and autoclean and autoremove. It disabled the Virtual Box service on Linux because the headers were out of date. The headers caught up, so I rebuilt the modules off the Guest Additions CD.

I'm trying to start the service again, but I can't seem to find the command. For example, I found How to automatically start and shut down VirtualBox machines?, but it talks about using the Virtual Box manager and not Ubuntu's service control.

How do I start How to start Virtual Box service on Ubuntu Linux?

If needed, how do I reinstall the Virtual Box service on Ubuntu Linux?

Best Answer

On my Deepin Linux (a variant of Ubuntu), I know two ways to start the Virtualbox services.

In the terminal type service --status-all -- It will list the services registered in system with the status mentioned in output. You can see VirtualBox related services with the name vbox*.
This step is now trivial. To start a service type service service_name start where service_name is the service name you saw in step 1. E.g.: If the service name is vboxautostart-service then type service vboxautostart-service start.

Or,

Go into /etc/init.d. Type ls -l to list files (services) and look for services with the name vbox*. Make sure that they are executable.
Executing them is similar to executing a binary. E.g.: To start vboxdrv service, the command would be ./vboxdrv start.

In both the methods, you can choose not to issue start to see all parameters available for the service.

Related Solutions

VirtualBox – How to Automatically Start and Shut Down Virtual Machines

Have you tried acpipowerbutton from this command set?

VBoxManage controlvm        <uuid>|<name>
                            pause|resume|reset|poweroff|savestate|
                            acpipowerbutton|acpisleepbutton|

Edit after reading the comments:

You can use acpid or other acpi utilities to make it graceful. Also, can you provide more information about how do you shutdown the machine at the moment?

Plain shutdown wouldn't wait for unfinished jobs, a time delay may be too long.

I assume you aren't using a window manager so try this tool.

Just seen this daemon. You might find it useful.

Linux – How to resize Alpine Linux terminal in VirtualBox

I'm assuming you're talking about the standard linux console, not a graphical terminal inside Xorg or Wayland. That being the case:

With extlinux bootloader

Alpine defaults to using extlinux when installed on a machine that's booted in BIOS mode.

You can set the terminal size by editing /boot/extlinux.conf:

Remove nomodeset from the line starting APPEND.
Add a video=... line at the end of the APPEND line, with the resolution you want. For example, video=1440x900.
Reboot.

With grub bootloader

Alpine defaults to grub when installed on a machine booted in EFI mode.

Edit /etc/default/grub:

Find the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line, and remove nomodeset.

Add these two lines:

GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=1440x900

Run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg as root (or use sudo if you have it set up).
Reboot

The virtualbox guest additions packages only provide support for Xorg video, and a few other things like shared folders.