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HOWTO: Setup Headless Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 on Ubuntu Server 8.10 – Windows XP
Posted by The Right Guy in Uncategorized on November 9th, 2008
The steps are not too difficult but I did have to find a few places for information. Search on the forum turn up nothing on this subject so hopefully this HOWTO would be helpful to someone out there.
Note: This is not using the OSE version.
Background:
VirtualBox has a very good GUI running on the host to manage guest OS. However when running a server, we typically do not want to run X on it. Fortunately VirtualBox has commandline tools to manage guest systems. It also provides the VirtualBox Remote Desktop Protocol (VRDP) to allow connection to the guest remotely.
Clarification of terms used:
Host – refers to the machine we are trying to install VirtualBox.
Guest – the VirtualBox guest system that is setup on the host.
Remote – the PC that we are working on to connect to the host via SSH.
This setup was done on a fresh install of Ubuntu Server 8.10 with openssh-server installed.
All the following steps are done by SSH into the host from a remote (I’m using Windows for now).