How to run vm from terminal?

[emre]

Hi I can run VMs via phpVirtualBox addon thanks for that but how come I can't run VMs from terminal?

For example `emre@tw8:~$ vboxmanage startvm xptw8 --type headless

VBoxManage: error: Could not find a registered machine named 'xptw8'
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "FindMachine(Bstr(pszVM).raw(), machine.asOutParam())" at line 575 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
`

I mean what command phpVirtualBox is using to launch VMs maybe I should use it?

If it's necessary more information can be found here http://askubuntu.com/questions/700364

[Ian Moore]

The user configured for vboxwebsrv is not the same user you are running vboxmanage as: "emre"

[emre]

Hi Ian thank you for reply.
I don't have "vboxwebsrv" user. I have a user named "vbuser".
However isn't this command suppose to work with "sudo"? It didn't.
I'm using Virtualbox 4.3.34 and phpVirtualBox 4.3-3. I'm planning to upgrade what ever latest version is hope that will solve my issue.

edit 1:
Okay I updated to Virtualbox 5.0.12 and phpVirtualbox5.0.5
I still can't start virtual machines from terminal!

root@tw8:/home/vbuser/VirtualBox VMs# VBoxHeadless -startvm "c9ff4592-79a5-4d99-8c4f-5a86d32b0d3b" --vrdp=off
Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 5.0.12
(C) 2008-2015 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Invalid machine name or UUID!

root@tw8:/home/vbuser/VirtualBox VMs# VBoxHeadless -startvm win7 --vrdp=off
Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 5.0.12
(C) 2008-2015 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Invalid machine name or UUID!

root@tw8:/home/vbuser/VirtualBox VMs# vboxmanage startvm win7 --type headless
VBoxManage: error: Could not find a registered machine named 'win7'
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBoxWrap, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "FindMachine(Bstr(pszVM).raw(), machine.asOutParam())" at line 572 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp

I'm just trying to add a line to crontab so virtualmachine can start on server boot. What I'm doing wrong?

edit 2:
Okay I logged in as "vbuser" to server via ssh.
I used this command and virtual machine started to work. VBoxHeadless -startvm "c9ff4592-79a5-4d99-8c4f-5a86d32b0d3b" --vrdp=off
I added this line to crontab of vbuser with @reboot at the beginning. Well it's not starting the VM on server boot. :|

edit 3:
Added this line into sudo crontab but still it's not starting vm on server boot.
@reboot sudo -u vbuser VBoxHeadless -startvm "c9ff4592-79a5-4d99-8c4f-5a86d32b0d3b" --vrdp=off