Autostart Pfsense Mandriva 2010 at boot

[Dean333]

Howzit Guys,

I have installed Pfsense on Virualbox as a guest, I am fairly new when it comes to Linux commands so if someone can assist me with a script that I can implement that will start my virtual machine when madriva boots.

I am looking more at using the autostart aplication that Mandriva offers and VIA that add a command / script to start the process…

Please, any help would be appreciated.

[Plexus]

here is an init-script I found ad vbox-forums some time ago. as its no longer adjusted to new versions von vbox I modified it on my own working fine with vbox 4.0.8 on ubuntu
I dunno anything about mandriva but i guess on principle it will work - maybe you will need to do some little changes

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: virtualbox_vms
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Control VirtualBox Virtual Machine instances
### END INIT INFO
#
# Original Version 2008051100 by Jochem Kossen <jochem.kossen@gmail.com>
# http://farfewertoes.com
#
# Released in the public domain
#
# This file came with a README file containing the instructions on how
# to use this script.
#
# Modified my Plexus
#

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

# Are we running from init?
run_by_init() {
    ([ "$previous" ] && [ "$runlevel" ]) || [ "$runlevel" = S ]
}

################################################################################
# INITIAL CONFIGURATION
VBOXDIR="" # path to the file "machines_enabled" including the list of vbox-machine names
VM_USER="" # user starting the vbox-machines

################################################################################
# CHECK CONFIG

export PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"

if [ ! -f $VBOXDIR/machines_enabled ]; then
    echo "ERROR: $VBOXDIR/machines_enabled does not exist. Exiting."
    exit 1
fi

SU="su $VM_USER -c"
VBOXMANAGE="VBoxManage -nologo"

################################################################################
# FUNCTIONS

# Check for running machines every few seconds; return when all machines are
# down
wait_for_closing_machines() {
    if [ `$SU "$VBOXMANAGE list runningvms" | wc -l` != 0 ]; then
        sleep 2
	echo -n "."
        wait_for_closing_machines
    fi
}

################################################################################
# RUN
case "$1" in
    start)
	cat /etc/virtualbox/machines_enabled | while read VM; do
		if [ `$SU "$VBOXMANAGE list runningvms" | grep Test | wc -l` != 0 ]; then
			log_action_msg "Virtual machine $VM already running..."
		else
			log_action_msg "Starting VM: $VM ..."
			#$SU "$VBOXMANAGE startvm $VM --type headless"
			$SU "screen -m -d -S $VM VBoxHeadless --startvm $VM --vrde=off"
		fi
	done
	;;
    stop)
        # NOTE: this stops all running VM's. Not just the ones listed in the config
        $SU "$VBOXMANAGE list runningvms" | awk '{ print $1; }' | sed -e 's/"//g' | while read VM; do
		log_action_msg "Shutting down VM: $VM"
		echo -n "\tWaiting for closing down VM..."
		$SU "$VBOXMANAGE controlvm $VM acpipowerbutton"
        done
        wait_for_closing_machines
	echo
        ;;
    start-vm)
        log_action_msg "Starting VM: $2 ..."
        $SU "$VBOXMANAGE startvm \"$2\" --type headless"
        ;;
    stop-vm)
        log_action_msg "Stopping VM: $2 ..."
        $SU "$VBOXMANAGE controlvm \"$2\" acpipowerbutton"
        ;;
    poweroff-vm)
        log_action_msg "Powering off VM: $2 ..."
        $SU "$VBOXMANAGE controlvm \"$2\" poweroff"
        ;;
    status)
	if [ `$SU "$VBOXMANAGE list runningvms" | wc -l` = 0 ]; then
		log_action_msg "Currently there are no virtual machines running..."
	else
		log_action_msg "The following virtual machines are currently running:"
		$SU "$VBOXMANAGE list runningvms" | sed -ne 's/[^\"]*\"\([^\"]*\)\"[^\"]*/\1 /p' | while read VM; do
			echo "\t$VM (`$SU "VBoxManage showvminfo $VM" | grep "Hardware UUID:" | sed -e "s/^Name:\s*//g"`)"
		done
	fi
        ;;
    *)
        log_failure_msg "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|start-vm|stop-vm|poweroff-vm}"
        exit 3
	;;
esac

exit 0</jochem.kossen@gmail.com>

of course I will have an sympathetic ear if anyone being well familiar with bash flying over this script has any suggestions to improve…