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Shell script to start a headless virtualbox vm from a snapshot.
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vbox_start.sh
#!/bin/bash
EXPECTED_ARGS=2
if [ $# -ne $EXPECTED_ARGS ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 VMNAME_or_UUID SNAPSHOTNAME"
exit 1
fi
set -x
VBoxManage controlvm "$1" poweroff #enforce turnoff
VBoxManage snapshot "$1" restore "$2" #restore snapshot
VBoxManage showvminfo "$1" | grep State #display state to verify
VBoxHeadless -s "$1" #run in headless mode in background
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