The simplest way to start VM on VirtualBox is a GUI. You have to click ‘Start’ and that’s all. What if you want to control your machines from a shell script? You have to use VBoxManage tool. It offers a really huge set of commands:

VBoxManage startvm
VBoxManage list
VBoxManage showvminfo
VBoxManage controlvm
VBoxManage addiscsidisk
VBoxManage adoptstate
VBoxManage clonehd
VBoxManage closemedium
VBoxManage convertfromraw
VBoxManage createhd
VBoxManage createvm

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