vboxsvc - VirtualBox SMF service wrapper / News: Recent posts

This release marks the migration (or mirroring at least) from SourceForge to GitHub, and making available for the default-installation users of some new features that were introduced years ago after the 0.17 release and well-used by early adopters, but not promoted to a version tag to be deemed stable. Which they were.

Main new feature of this release is the ability of vbox.sh to create snapshots of ZFS datasets backing the VM and/or its data. Datasets containing the VM config files, VirtualBox snapshot files, and HDD image files, can be found automatically. Other datasets (such as raw ZVOLs) can be listed in a special SMF attribute.
If enabled, this feature creates snapshots after stopping the VM and before starting it. Can also be called as a command-line action.
Other new features include the "poweroff" command-line action ("pressing" acpipowerbutton first, then calling poweroff if ACPI fails), and a timeout override for poweroff and reboot command-line actions.... read more