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Quorten Blog 1

First blog for all Quorten's blog-like writings

Wow, VirtualBox does have a GUI option to detach so that you can operate in “headless” mode without the virtual machine GUI window present on your desktop, but it came about with a hide-and-seek game of GUI reorganization.

20190718/DuckDuckGo virtualbox hide window daemon vm
20190718/https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2597

20190718/DuckDuckGo virtualbox start vm daemon no gui

Beware! You MUST start a VM as headless via the command line or else you will not get the “detach GUI” option in the GUI.

VBoxManage startvm --type headless <name>