Thank you! I have tried this and I get the same result that I have had
using other options... the service starts and tries to run the
VBoxHeadless.exe with all the proper parameters. Watching the
TaskManager, I see the headless program start and then stop almost
immediately. Upon checking the log for the service, it says that
VBoxHeadless stopped with an exit code of -2147024809. I have looked
this up and cannot find any useful information.

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of fcassia
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:16 AM
To: VirtualBox end user list
Subject: Re: [vbox-users] Run VirtualBox as a service in Windows

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Oster, Bradley C CTR SAF/FMP (AFFSO)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have setup VirtualBox on a Windows server on our network and the
only way
> I can access the server is through remote desktop. I have been looking
at
> trying to get it to run as a service but I can't find any good info
other
> than finding comments along the lines that "VirtualBox cannot be setup
as a
> service in Windows". Is this really true? If not, please let me know
what I
> can do because right now, the only way to run this is if I login and
start
> it myself...if the server needs to restart, then I'm out of luck. I
also do
> not like having to stay logged in to the remote server to keep
VirtualBox
> running

Have you tried this one?

http://www.duodata.de/ntwrapper/index.htm

"The NT Wrapper allows standard Windows 32 bit applications or scripts
to be run
as a NT service in Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista"

The "lite" version which runs a SINGLE program as a service (would be
fine for VBox) is FREEWARE.

FC

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