How can I delay a service to start at boot?

[Sir Charles]

Hi everyone,

I just wondered if there is any command I can use or any file to edit in order to delay the start of a service at boot. For example, I wouldn't need vboxdrv.service to start with the rest of the system.
Thanks in advance!

[OunceofCommonSense]

You could use Boot Up Manager which I think is listed as BUM in Software sources

[Sir Charles]

You could use Boot Up Manager which I think is listed as BUM in Software sources

Thanks for your reply!
I should have included in my post that I have already run BUM, but seemingly not all the services that I can see with systemctl list-unit-files --state enabled are listed there. I am particularly interested in delaying the start of vboxdrv.service, but it would be good to know, in general, if delaying a service is possible via terminal or otherwise by editing some file somehow.

[Spearmint2]

I did that to networking, which was slowing boot times by a few minutes. It wasn't anywhere expected, but in a file called "failsafe.conf" in the /etc/init folder. That's NOT the file you need, it was only concerning the networking, but maybe in the same folder you can find one for vbox that will let you change something.

You should also check out the "Applications at Startup" program. Mine is in command "mate-session-properties",so if using another desktop, may be similar.