Take the tour ×  I'm wondering if there exists an OS or distro
that is purely created for launching a simple GUI at startup
that allows a user to select a VM and fire that up.  You could
see it as a multi-boot like system but with virtualbox VM's,
very basic, no fancy gui stuff, just a list of VM's and the
ability to boot them.  I know of Ubuntu JeOS which is
specifically geared towards VMWare virtualization. The thing is
that we need VirtualBox and a simple GUI to select the vm.
share|improve this question Is there some reason you can't just
install something like Ubuntu desktop and configure VirtualBox
as a startup application? –  Goyuix May 3 '11 at 14:57 That's
always an option although i would rather not expose the whole
host system to the users, simple running instances of the vm's
is all that needs to be done on this machine. –  ChrisR May 3
'11 at 21:04 Yes it's called ESXi –  t1nt1n Apr 15 '12 at 13:23
add comment  4 Answers  Basically what you're asking for is the
equivalent of a bare-metal version