Administrators are often called upon to write scripts to accomplish tasks. I've been playing a lot with php cli scripting lately and had a need to create a script to startup a VirtualBox VM from the command line. Here's what it looks like;

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
if ($argv[1]=="") {
echo "Options not specified.\n\r";
echo "Usage: ";
echo $argv[0]." <vmname>\n\r\n\r";
exit;
}else{
$vm=$argv[1];
system("VBoxManage vmstatistics ". $vm,$retval);
if ($retval==1) {
echo "Starting Virtual Machine ".$vm."\r\n";
#system("VBoxVRDP -startvm ".$vm,$rval);
system("VBoxManage startvm ".$vm." --type headless",$rval);
}else{
echo $vm." appears to be running already!\r\n";
exit;
}
}
?>

I found using VboxVRDP and VBoxHeadless left the script incomplete and open even after shutting down the virtual machine. I've left a commented line with the VBoxVRDP startup statement for your testing purposes.

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