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VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless Debian Lenny Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless Debian Lenny server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

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By: free-x
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DKMS is not available on Debian/Lenny

soborka:/data# apt-cache search dkms
soborka:/data# cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.4

By: Anonymous
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It's in testing (squeeze) and you can get it from backports:

wget http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.1.1.2-2~bpo50+1_all.deb

dpkg -i dkms_2.1.1.2-2~bpo50+1_all.deb

or from Dell

http://linux.dell.com/dkms/

By: matty
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This is what you want to use now.

 # wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | apt-key add -

 

Thanks for the guide, Falko. :)