Initscript for headless virtualbox

conf.d

# Virtual machine name
VMNAME="guest"

# User, owing virtual machine
VMUSER="vboxuser"

# Stop mode. One off acpipowerbutton | savestate
VMSTOP="savestate"

vboxheadless

#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

extra_commands="state"

vboxmanage="/usr/bin/VBoxManage"
sucmd="su - $VMUSER -c "

depend() {
        before iptables
        after net
}

state() {
        local state=`$sucmd "$vboxmanage showvminfo $VMNAME | grep '^State:' | sed -s 's/^State: \+//'"`
        einfo "Machine $VMNAME state: $state"
}

start() {
        ebegin "Starting Virtual machine $VMNAME"
        $sucmd "$vboxmanage startvm $VMNAME -t headless"
        eend $?
}

stop() {
        local state=`$sucmd "$vboxmanage showvminfo $VMNAME | grep '^State:' | sed -s 's/^State: \+//'"`
        ebegin "Stoping Virtual machine $VMNAME"
        if  grep -q "powered off" <<< $state ; then
                einfo "Machine is powered off, nothing to do"
        else
                $sucmd "$vboxmanage controlvm $VMNAME $VMSTOP"
        fi
        eend $?
}

restart() {
        stop
        sleep 1
        start
}