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I have some VMs that I need to be started when the host system is started. How do I set them to autostart?

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Open the VM display, click View->Details

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Select Boot Options, and tick Start virtual machine on host boot up

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install virsh then 

virsh autostart your_vm_name
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if VM stuck at grub, virt-viewer your_vm_name, and boot up. After that, change /etc/default/grub, make sure that GRUB_TIMEOUT=0. then update-grub – HVNSweeting Jan 25 at 6:56
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Or you can place the VM xml in /etc/libvirt/qemu/autostart/

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