Archive for the ‘virtual box’ Category

Headless Virtual Box

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

I like running VirtualBox headless on my Mac. It doesn't show up in the Dock, and feels like it's a remote server. First, figure out which VMs you have on your machine. haddad-work:~ jhaddad$ VBoxManage list vms Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.6 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. "WebServer" {2c61a180-e098-4926-b09a-27e431791c88} Then ...

VirtualBox Guest Additions – Redhat / CentOS

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Mount VirtualBox Additions disk through the VirtualBox UI. yum install -y gcc kernel-devel-`uname -r` mkdir /mnt/cdrom mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom sh /mnt/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run Info found on tuxtraining.com

Using Kickstart to Automate CentOS VM Creation

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

I've done this using CentOS, but I'm pretty sure the same thing will work with RedHat the exact same way. Virtualization is now a commodity with several free tools available from Sun, VMWare and Xen. If you're like me, you like to create a new, clean VM for each experiment. ...

VirtualBox – SSH’ing into a VM from an outside machine

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Note: The terminology used below also applies to VMWare. The screens are different, but the issue and the solution are the same. When creating a new VM through VirtualBox, you might have a problem SSH'ing into the box. You also might notice you get a 10.0.x.xx type address, even ...