diff --git a/dot_bin/executable_vbox-start b/dot_bin/executable_vbox-start
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-#! /bin/bash
-
-# start Virtualbox VM with an event hook that fires when closing
-# takes one argument which is the string name of the VM to start
-
-if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
-    echo "No VM specified"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-# when VBoxManage runs it spawns a new process with the machine uuid
-# as part of the full command. This is the process we wish to monitor
-# in order to fire an event when it closes. Therefore, need to get the
-# machine uuid for the target VM from the config files (yes VBoxManage
-# can do this but it seems to randomly take a long time; sed is way
-# more reliable)
-
-vbox_conf="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml"
-vbox_home=$(sed -n 's/.*defaultMachineFolder=\"\(.*\)\" defaultHardDiskFormat.*/\1/p' "$vbox_conf")
-vm_conf="$vbox_home/$1/$1.vbox"
-
-if [[ ! -e "$vm_conf" ]]; then
-    echo "Invalid VM specified"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-machine_uuid=$(sed -n 's/.*Machine uuid=\"{\(.*\)}\".*/\1/p' "$vm_conf")
-
-VBoxManage startvm "$1"
-
-vm_pid=$(pgrep -f "$machine_uuid")
-
-# ew polling...
-while [ -d "/proc/$vm_pid" ]; do
-    sleep 0.1
-done
-
-#xitsign