Comments on VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless Ubuntu 10.10 Server

Good read for newcomers! Thanks falko, I'm sure this article will become handy in future Google searches.

If I may add, can you also post the commands to run the VM's at system startup, I'm using webmin, since cron didnt work for me, maybe you have a better automated command? 

Also, for those who want to get a complete replacement for the closed-source, out-dated, and end-of-life VMware Server, phpvirtualbox will add web interface capabilities to the virtualbox.

 http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/

Unfortunately phpVirtualbox isn't yet compat with 4.0 (Just went looking for such a thing and came across this post after checking out phpVirtualbox's page). So, stuck with my scripts and the CLI now, not too bad.

Ahhh Thank you for this post about the extension pack! I've been trying to get VRDE to work for 2 hours now. Almost gave up until I found this! VB needs to make this point about the extension packs in their docs ASAP. Especially in the VRDE how-to sections!

yes, phpvirtualbox is now compatible with v4.

sorry bad tutorial,   using the  closed-source version in a tutorial without warning for the restricted policies is imho opinion a bad practice, 

also rdp can be replaced by a module that implements vnc instead of rdp  witch is free either gpl lgpl or other.... 

b4 version 4.0, it was painful to move the Vms in VirtualBox , not anymore

To move a VM use Virtualbox 4.x new export format .ova. If you setup your VM with "Virtio-net" network card you can even move from Windows Host to Linux Host without changing a bit ! (with SATA drivers at least, have not tried IDE, even for XP.)

To start - stop the Vms as a service :    http://www.glump.net/howto/virtualbox_as_a_service   . Very handy. No need for nohup (or a detached Screen windows which is another solution over SSH).

Just wanted to thank you for writing this article. I'd have preferred to use KVM if my machine supported hardware virtualizaion, but this VMWare headless setup works very well :-)

Hi there, just say thanks about this fantastic tutorial, i spent like 2 days triying to enable de VBoxVRDP and i could't because of the extra pack and thanks to you, today i did it,

Thanks man,

Best Regards, 

 Juan

Thanks for writing this article.

 It helped me.

Hi I follow thse intructions , it works just fine but I got no port listening .....

hdo@VENUS:~$ VBoxHeadless --startvm "U16"

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