Avanti can be installed as a service to automatically start when the host system boots.  When installed as a service, Avanti enables the Automatic Delayed Start option by default on Windows 7 and higher.

When installing Avanti as a service, considering the following:

•The Avanti configuration must be set up to auto boot.  See Launching Avanti Without the Console for details on auto booting.

•No control icon is displayed when Avanti is run as a service.  The Avanti service can be stopped and started from the Windows Services management console.

•Stopping the Avanti service crashes the virtual Alpha system. Always halt the Avanti guest O/S before stopping the Avanti service

•Disable serial telnet sessions (OPA0/tty00, TTA0/tty01) in the virtual Alpha configuration file by unchecking the Start session automatically box.  When run as a service, the serial telnet session will not have a user session in which to start.

•Enable the Avanti auto_exit feature.  See Auto-Exit for details.