Remotebox manages remote servers or native VirtualBox virtual machines

This means that as long as the virtual machine shuts down, the user will not be able to deal with the data in the virtual machine unless it is back in front of the VirtualBox host and is directly operational. Such a problem will no longer exist in the future, as the tool named Remotebox is the best helper to solve related problems.

Configure Vboxheadless to connect your virtual machine

What is headless mode

Headless mode is a configuration mode of the system. In this mode, the system lacks a display device, keyboard, or mouse. Headless mode is for working in this mode, especially for server-side http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/7298.html "> program developers." Because servers, such as hosts that provide WEB services, tend to lack the aforementioned devices, they need to use the functionality they provide to generate the data that is available to the client (such as the browser's host with the associated display device, keyboard, and mouse). Generally speaking, we will often in the desktop version of Linux with the VirtualBox GUI to manage the virtual machine, but the server generally does not have GUI, this time how we should manage our virtual machine. But don't worry, VirtualBox developed a tool like vboxheadless. Vboxheadless can connect to our virtual machines via Remote Desktop, so that the server can manage our virtual machines remotely even without the VirtualBox GUI. The operating environment of this article is VirtualBox (version 4.1.18) running on Ubuntu 12.04, and the IP address is 192.168.0.100.

VirtualBox is a lightweight virtual machine with a capacity of only 63MB, which is an advantage for 570MB VMware Workstation 7.1来. After installation, start the software, directly support the simplified traditional Chinese, which for the English version of VMware Workstation 7.1来 said is an advantage. July 19, 2011 officially released the VirtualBox of the 4.1 series (currently the latest version is 4.1.22). The main improvements in the VirtualBox 4.1 series include:

Clones that support virtual machines improve the GUI interface for creating virtual disks and replicating virtual disks 64-bit memory limit promoted to PCI passthrough with 1TB support Linux add WDDM graphics card driver Hot plug for SATA hard drive support

Install VirtualBox

This article takes the 64-bit operating system as an example, using the online installation method.

$sudo vi/etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following:

Deb Http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib $wget-Q http://download.virtualbox.org/ virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc-o-| \ sudo apt-key add-$sudo apt update $sudo apt install linux-headers-$ (uname-r) build-essential virtualbox-4.1 dkms

Installing VirtualBox Enhancements

More than 4.0 version of an extended Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack, please install with root permissions, otherwise many enhancements are not available.

# cd/tmp # wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.18/oracle_vm_virtualbox_extension_\ Pack-4.1.18-78361.vbox-extpack#vboxmanage Extpack Install Oracle_vm_virtualbox_extension_ Pack-4.1.18-78361.vbox-extpack#adduser Administrator Vboxusers