Comments on: Start Headless vbox on windows http://johnmee.com/2008/10/start-headless-vbox-on-windows/ A Programmer in Sydney, Australia Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:02:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: joe http://johnmee.com/2008/10/start-headless-vbox-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-389 joe Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:53:38 +0000 http://www.johnmee.com/?p=75#comment-389 I found the answer, but it's kind of a hack. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071011212557AAofTy6 Of all places. But it seems to do exactly what I want. I found the answer, but it’s kind of a hack.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071011212557AAofTy6

Of all places. But it seems to do exactly what I want.

]]> By: John http://johnmee.com/2008/10/start-headless-vbox-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-388 John Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:46:32 +0000 http://www.johnmee.com/?p=75#comment-388 Hi Joe, You're right! I get the same behaviour; I can't exit the dos window from which I run this command without killing the machine. I'd not noticed this; no doubt because I tend to leave the dos window open. Definately a problem of parent-child processes. We need to work out how to fork a process on windows, or detach the child, or something like that. Any ideas? Thanks for the heads-up. John. Hi Joe,

You’re right! I get the same behaviour; I can’t exit the dos window from which I run this command without killing the machine. I’d not noticed this; no doubt because I tend to leave the dos window open.

Definately a problem of parent-child processes. We need to work out how to fork a process on windows, or detach the child, or something like that. Any ideas?

Thanks for the heads-up.
John.

]]> By: Joe http://johnmee.com/2008/10/start-headless-vbox-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Joe Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:38:04 +0000 http://www.johnmee.com/?p=75#comment-383 I'm glad I stumbled upon this post, because the information is literally nowhere else. Seriously, try googling for "start /b vboxheadless". Something fishy is going on though. When I start it from the command line, I can get a new prompt while it's running in the background, where I can DIR and all that jazz. But when I type exit, it hangs. The culprit? VBoxHeadless.exe. Observing the task manager, this process dies as soon as I close the console window. So I'm still stuck with an ugly console window cluttering my desk while VirtualBoxHeadless.exe is running. Any thoughts? Have you gotten it to the point where you can run VirtualBoxHeadless in the background with no windows open? Thanks, Joe I’m glad I stumbled upon this post, because the information is literally nowhere else. Seriously, try googling for “start /b vboxheadless”.

Something fishy is going on though. When I start it from the command line, I can get a new prompt while it’s running in the background, where I can DIR and all that jazz. But when I type exit, it hangs. The culprit? VBoxHeadless.exe. Observing the task manager, this process dies as soon as I close the console window.

So I’m still stuck with an ugly console window cluttering my desk while VirtualBoxHeadless.exe is running. Any thoughts? Have you gotten it to the point where you can run VirtualBoxHeadless in the background with no windows open?

Thanks,
Joe

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