[solved] VBoxHeadless can't seem to run as a systemd service

I'm trying to write a simple service file for VBoxHeadless (for my headless server).
│[Unit]
Description=Virtualbox Headless WinXP VM
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm WinXP
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Somehow whenever I run it I get (from systemctl status) the following:-
% systemctl status vbox.service
vbox.service - Virtualbox Headless WinXP VM
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/vbox.service; disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:29:38 +0800; 2s ago
Process: 28938 ExecStart=/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm WinXP (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/vbox.service
This is the default Type=Simple, forking and oneshot does not seem to help. Any suggestions? Of course, just running /usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm WinXP works...
One interesting point to note is that VBoxHeadless is merely a symlink to VBox (which can't be run by itself). Not sure how useful that is. It might make sense for me to use VBoxManage instead, but if possible I'd like to get it working using VBoxHeadless since as far as I can tell that does the 'right thing' (tm).
Last edited by ngoonee (2012-08-27 00:52:26)

Hmm that doesnt work for me...
I have placed a file called vbox.service under /lib/systemd/system/vbox.service with the following content
[Unit]
Description=Virtualbox Headless VM
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm 4decf7c1-7eda-461c-92aa-835d2405a22e
ExecStop=/usr/bin/VBoxManage controlvm 4decf7c1-7eda-461c-92aa-835d2405a22e poweroff
User=my_user
[Install]
WantedBy=muti-user.target
If I start and stop it via
sudo systemctl start vbox and sudo systemctl stop vbox, everything works fine
Then i entered the following:
sudo systemctl enable vbox, but it wont start at boot
Here is the output
sudo systemctl status vbox
vbox.service - Virtualbox Headless VM
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vbox.service; enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/vbox.service
Jan 05 02:38:59 exia pulseaudio[1428]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
Jan 05 02:40:08 exia systemd[1]: Started Virtualbox Headless VM.
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia systemd[1]: Stopping Virtualbox Headless VM...
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxManage[1546]: 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxHeadless[1375]: Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.2.6_OSE
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxHeadless[1375]: (C) 2008-2012 Oracle Corporation
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxHeadless[1375]: All rights reserved.
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxHeadless[1375]: VRDE server is listening on port 3389.
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxHeadless[1375]: VRDE server is inactive.
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia systemd[1]: Stopped Virtualbox Headless VM.
/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm 4decf7c1-7eda-461c-92aa-835d2405a22e works fine
Any ideas, though?

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