Commandline for starting/stopping vboxes in headless mode

vbox

#!/bin/sh

E_NOARGS=85

if [[ -z "$1" || -z "$2" ]]; then
        [[ "$1" == "list" ]] || ( echo "Usage: `basename $0` [list|start|pause|stop] vm-name"; exit $E_NOARGS; )
fi

case $1 in
        "list" | "ls" )
                echo `VBoxManage list runningvms|cut -d"\"" -f2`
                ;;
        "start" )
                running=`VBoxManage list runningvms|cut -d"\"" -f2|grep "^$2$"`
                if [[ -n $running ]]; then
                        echo "VM Guest \"$2\" is already running"
                        exit 1
                else
                        VBoxManage startvm $2 --type headless
                fi
                ;;
        "pause" )
                running=`VBoxManage list runningvms|cut -d"\"" -f2|grep "^$2$"`
                if [[ -n $running ]]; then
                        VBoxManage controlvm "$2" savestate
                else
                        echo "VM Guest \"$2\" is not running!"
                        exit 1
                fi
                ;;
        "stop" )
                running=`VBoxManage list runningvms|cut -d"\"" -f2|grep "^$2$"`
                if [[ -n $running ]]; then
                        VBoxManage controlvm "$2" poweroff
                else
                        echo "VM Guest \"$2\" is not running!"
                fi
                ;;
        * )
                echo "Usage: `basename $0` [list|start|pause|stop] vm-name"; exit $E_NOARGS;
                ;;
esac