9 Advanced topics 9.16 Starting the VirtualBox web service automatically The VirtualBox web service (vboxwebsrv) is used for controlling VirtualBox remotely. It is doc- umented in detail in the VirtualBox Software Development Kit (SDK) please see chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces, page 163. As the client base using this interface is growing, we added start scripts for the various operation systems we support. The following describes how to use them. On Mac OS X, launchd is used. An example configuration file can be found in $HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist. It can be enabled by changing the Disabled key from true to false. To manually start the service use the following command: launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist For additional information on how launchd services could be configured see http:// developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/ BPSystemStartup.html. 152
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