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Why does VirtualBox keep launching on boot? (lemmy.ca)
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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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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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?

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

vboxautostart.service does not exist

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