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Date:      Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:21:34 -0800
From:      Paul Norman <penorman@mac.com>
To:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Invalid frontend name for VirtualBox without GUI
Message-ID:  <5661D9AE.3040601@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <A3C294FE-8B09-4EEE-8970-26ABA64F923A@gid.co.uk>
References:  <56616F05.7040807@mac.com> <A3C294FE-8B09-4EEE-8970-26ABA64F923A@gid.co.uk>

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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.





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