Linux Tutorials on the topic “virtualbox”

• Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (Ubuntu 12.04)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 5

  Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (Ubuntu 12.04) phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on an Ubuntu 12.04 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless Debian Squeeze Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, debian, virtualbox • Comments: 2

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless Debian Squeeze Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.0 on a headless Debian Squeeze 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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• How To Set Up A Serial Port Between Two Virtual Machines In VirtualBox

  Author: Rudika79 • Tags: virtualization, virtualbox • Comments: 3

  How To Set Up A Serial Port Between Two Virtual Machines In VirtualBox I needed to test serial communication between two VirtualBox guest machines on Linux. This tutorial describes what I did to set up a serial port between two virtual machines running on VirtualBox.

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• Installing VirtualBox On Ubuntu

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, ubuntu, desktop, virtualbox • Comments: 9

  Installing VirtualBox On Ubuntu This tutorial shows how you can install InnoTek's VirtualBox on a Ubuntu desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system. There are two ways of installing VirtualBox: from precompiled binaries that are available for some distributions and come under the PUEL license, and from the sources that are released under the GPL. This article will show both ways.

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• VirtualBox 2: How To Pass Through USB Devices To Guests On An Ubuntu 8.10 Host

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, ubuntu, desktop, virtualbox • Comments: 8

  VirtualBox 2: How To Pass Through USB Devices To Guests On An Ubuntu 8.10 Host This short guide shows how you can pass through USB devices (such as a USB flash drive) to VirtualBox guests on an Ubuntu 8.10 VirtualBox 2 host. USB support is available only in the VirtualBox PUEL (closed-source) edition, not in the OSE edition, so make sure you have the PUEL edition installed.

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