vboxmanage-startvm

Start a virtual machine. More information: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-startvm.

• Start a virtual machine:

VBoxManage startvm vm_name|uuid

• Start a virtual machine with the specified UI mode:

VBoxManage startvm vm_name|uuid --type headless|gui|sdl|separate

• Specify a password file to start an encrypted virtual machine:

VBoxManage startvm vm_name|uuid --password path/to/password_file

• Specify a password ID to start an encrypted virtual machine:

VBoxManage startvm vm_name|uuid --password-id password_id

• Start a virtual machine with an environment variable pair name value:

VBoxManage startvm vm_name|uuid --put-env=name=value