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Subject: Re: Invalid frontend name for VirtualBox without GUI
From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To: Paul Norman <penorman@mac.com>
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On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Paul Norman <penorman@mac.com> wrote:

> On 12/4/2015 3:40 AM, Bob Bishop wrote:
>
>> >If I turn on the QT4 and X11 options, this error goes away. With
>>> >just X11, I still get it.
>>> >
>>> >I would much rather not need to install X11 on my server. Are there
>>> >any known fixes for this error?
>>>
>> VBoxManage startvm --type headless <uuid|vmname>
>>
>>
> Thanks. This fixes it.
>
> I did VBoxManage setproperty defaultfrontend headless because I'm never
> going to want a non-headless VM.


You can always use  VBoxHeadless



-- 
Adam