[SOLVED]Virtualbox drivers not loaded at startup

Question

I followed the wiki and added vboxdrv to my DAEMONS. The only change is that I start it in the background. However, when I start Virtualbox, and then the guest OS within, it gives me an error.
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @net-profiles @dbus !sshd !netfs @crond @alsa @acpid @ntpd @vboxdrv)
I have to manually
modprobe vboxdrv
in order to start the guest OS. How can I have the vboxdrv started at boot?
also, is there a way to start the guest OS directly, without having to start the Virtualbox console?

Answer 1

Inittab:
# Runlevel 5 starts X environments
x1:5:once:/bin/su work -l -c "/usr/bin/startx -- :11 vt11 > /dev/null 2>&1"
x2:5:once:/bin/su windows -l -c "/usr/bin/startx -- :10 vt10 > /dev/null 2>&1"
x3:5:once:/bin/su windows -l -c "/usr/bin/VBoxManage startvm Ama --type vrdp > /dev/null 2>&1"
The first two start new X sessions, user "work" on vt11 and user "windows" on vt10. The third starts an RDP headless VirtualBox VM as user "windows". When the two X sessions start, they execute ~/.xinitrc (each of ~work/.xinitrc and ~windows/.xinitrc):
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx
VirtualBox
This starts the VirtualBox GUI so I then switch to vt11 or vt10 and select a VM to run. Note each of ~windows/.VirtualBox and ~work/.VirtualBox are completely separate VB configs owned by the separate accounts.
Note that I don't bother with a window manager because I run the VMs full screen anyway, but you can start one if you want within .xinitrc.
You can change "VirtualBox" in .xinitrc to start a specific VM using VBoxManage startvm "MyVMName"
Hope this helps.
Last edited by starfry (2011-03-29 21:49:33)