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Auto-starting VirtualBox VMs on OS X

After finding a lot of other posts on the topic that didn't work out for me this one did the trick so I'm reposting for my own sense of self preservation.

Link to original article.

Copy the Virtualbox autostart plist template file to your system's LaunchDaemons folder.

sudo cp \

/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/org.virtualbox.vboxautostart.plist \

Configure Zeroconf on FreeBSD

Install avahi-app and nss_mdns. Note: avahi-app is chosen over avahi because avahi depends on X11.

$ cd /usr/ports/net/avahi-app
$ sudo make config-recursive
$ sudo make install clean
$ cd /usr/ports/dns/nss_mdns
$ sudo make config-recursive

$ sudo make install clean

Configure manual ip on FreeBSD

Add these lines to your /etc/rc.conf

ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0"
defaultrouter="192.168.0.1"
hostname="hostname.domain.com"

You may need to run ifconfig to get the name of your network interface like this:

Copy a public ssh key one-liner

$ ssh user@example.com 'mkdir -p .ssh && cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys' < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

	wget \
	--recursive \
	--no-clobber \
	--page-requisites \
	--html-extension \
	--convert-links \
	--restrict-file-names=windows \
	--domains website.org \
	--no-parent \
	www.website.org/tutorials/html/

	# Scan 192.168.1.0 thru 192.168.1.255
	sudo nmap -sS 192.168.1.0/24

	mkdir ~/targetdir
	sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=$UID,gid=$GID sharename ~/targetdir

	# this performs a sample rate conversion on a folder of .wav files
	find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.wav' -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 -t -I {} sox {} -r 8000 8000Hz/{}

	#!/bin/bash
	OF="${1}.mp4"
	HandBrakeCLI -i "$1" -o "$OF" -e x264 -q 20 -E faac -B 256 -6 dpl2 -R Auto -D 0.0 -f mp4 --width 960 --height 540 --decomb --crop 0:0:0:0 --optimize -m -x cabac=0:ref=2:me=umh:bframes=0:weightp=0:subme=6:8x8dct=0:trellis=0