Oracle VM Virtual Box is a good utility to try different OSes and keep you host machine clutter free from development installations. Also makes sense to take a regular back up using rsync (file synchronization utility).
This blog post describes shortly how to run virtual box as a service.
To run virtual box as a service we have to start it from command line first and then add the batch / script to scheduled task (on windows) or a cron job ( on unix/linux).
Here are the steps:
1) go to c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox
2) execute "start /b /wait /low VBoxHeadless -startvm "virtual machine name"
3) press enter
This is it. Now you just need to schedule this execution and now you can run virtual machine in virtual box as a service.
To access virtual machine you can use ssh / remote rdp.
Reference:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1887&start=15
http://www.virtualbox.org
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