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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