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Figure A.2 Local Group Policy Editor Logon
Make sure that you set a system wide environment variable named VBOX_USER_HOME pointing at your
VirtualBox configuration directory. On Windows 7, this is typically C:\Users\
where
VirtualBox.
Similar to the scheduled task approach, a vCAS started in this way cannot be managed using
VBoxManage or the VirtualBox GUI. As before you need to use an RDP viewer to connect to the vCAS.
Create a scheduled task
To create a scheduled task to start the vCAS using VBoxHeaedless.exe., complete the following
steps:
1. Set a system wide environment variable named VBOX-USER_HOME pointing at your VirtualBox
configuration directory. On Windows 7, this is C:\ Users\
where
VirtualBox.
2. Create a batch script named startvcas. bat as follows:
@echo off
set log="%VBOX_USER_HOME%\startvcas_log.txt"
echo Starting the vCAS at system start > %log%
time /T >> %log%
whoami >> %log%
echo %VBOX_USER_HOME% >> %log%
"%VBOX_INSTALL_PATH%\VBoxHeadless.exe" -startvm hp-rdacas >> %log%
3. Save startvcas.bat in the %VBOX_USER_HOME% directory.
Create a scheduled task from the command line as follows:
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Appendix A: Starting a Virtual CAS at System Startup using VirtualBox