Upstart script for starting and stopping Virtualbox machines. This goes into /etc/init/vbox-agila-ledare.conf (which could be paremetrized, look this up in the upstart cookbook).
#
# Upstart receipt for starting Virtualbox machines after reboot
#
description "VM for agila-ledare.se"
author "Fredrik Wendt"
start on start-vbox-machines
stop on runlevel [016]
console output
pre-stop script
su vbox -c "VBoxManage controlvm agila-ledare savestate"
end script
script
exec su vbox -c "VBoxHeadless --startvm agila-ledare"
end script