How to auto start VMs on OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Dear iW00,

i tested your script in Terminal directly and it worked, so i copy pasted the command to automator-shell-scripts, saved it to programs and there i get an error stating that "there was an error while trying to run the shell-script".

Do you have any idea, what could be wrong?

It somehow doesn't recognize the "VBoxManage: command not found" i think, but when i type it in terminal it works, only via Script or Automator tool it doesn't...

Best

O.k. On OS X El Capitan the whole command should be:

/usr/local/bin/VBoxManage startvm "Name-Of-Your-vbox"

Don't know how you got it work without the path...

When you run Automator GUI, it has access to the user's PATH. When it runs on its own as an application, it doesn't have that user PATH, so you need to use the full path to the command.

Same issue, works in Terminal, doesn't work as a shell script in Automator. Any resolution to this?

Just saw the other responses. Thanks