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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="autostart-osx">
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| 4 | <title>macOS: Starting the Autostart Service With launchd</title>
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | On macOS, launchd is used to start the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> autostart
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| 9 | service. An example configuration file can be found in
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| 10 | <filepath>/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/org.virtualbox.vboxautostart.plist</filepath>.
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| 11 | To enable the service copy the file to
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| 12 | <filepath>/Library/LaunchDaemons</filepath> and change the
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| 13 | <codeph>Disabled</codeph> key from <codeph>true</codeph> to
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| 14 | <codeph>false</codeph>. Furthermore replace the second
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| 15 | parameter to an existing configuration file which has the same
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| 16 | format as on Linux, see <xref href="autostart-linux.dita#autostart-linux"/>.
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| 17 | </p>
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| 18 | <p>
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| 19 | To manually start the service use the following command:
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| 20 | </p>
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| 21 | <pre xml:space="preserve"># launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.virtualbox.vboxautostart.plist</pre>
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| 22 | <p>
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| 23 | For additional information on how launchd services can be
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| 24 | configured see:
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| 25 | </p>
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| 26 | <p><ph>http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/BPSystemStartup.html</ph>.
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| 27 | </p>
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| 28 | </body>
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| 30 | </topic>
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