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| - | ===== VirtualBox | + | ===== VirtualBox ===== |
| - | ==== Commonly-used commands ==== | + | VirtualBox is a free/opensource Hypervisor from Sun Microsystems. |
| - | To change between "not attached", | + | |
| - | < | + | |
| - | Set the boot order: | + | |
| - | < | + | |
| - | Add a shared folder: | + | |
| - | < | + | |
| - | Acpi Vm: | + | |
| - | < | + | |
| - | Change rdp address: | + | |
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| - | Change the Authentication type: | + | |
| - | < | + | |
| - | **Note**: option " | + | |
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| - | Change rdp port: | + | |
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| - | List all VMs in the server: | + | |
| - | < | + | |
| - | List all running VMs: | + | |
| - | < | + | |
| - | List guest properties: | + | |
| - | < | + | |
| - | Note: All the guest parameters(configuration) are in < | + | |
| + | * [[http:// | ||
| ===== Create a VM ===== | ===== Create a VM ===== | ||
| Copy an ISO to your home directory: | Copy an ISO to your home directory: | ||
| - | < | + | < |
| - | * SSH to VM server: 172.26.0.205 | + | * SSH to VM server: 172.26.0.200 |
| - | < | + | < |
| * start the virtualbox application | * start the virtualbox application | ||
| < | < | ||
| - | * Follow the wizzard | + | * Follow the wizard |
| - Base Memory: less than 512 MB | - Base Memory: less than 512 MB | ||
| - Network : NAT | - Network : NAT | ||
| - | - Harddisk | + | - Hard disk size: less than 30Gb |
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| + | ===== Networking ===== | ||
| + | ==== Bridged Networking ==== | ||
| + | If your guest is using bridged networking you MUST use this command to allow other users to use the host's physical network card. Make sure your virtual machine is shut down and then run this command: | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Each and every VM using bridged networking must use this command. | ||
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| + | As of VirtualBox 3.1.2 this is still a [[http:// | ||
| ==== Port Forwarding ==== | ==== Port Forwarding ==== | ||
| - | If your guest OS is using NAT for networking you will need to enable port forwarding. | + | If your guest OS is using NAT for networking |
| < | < | ||
| $ VBoxManage setextradata Ubuntu " | $ VBoxManage setextradata Ubuntu " | ||
| - | $ VBoxManage setextradata Ubuntu " | + | $ VBoxManage setextradata Ubuntu " |
| Then you can log in to the VM from your own computer using the port you've forwarded above: | Then you can log in to the VM from your own computer using the port you've forwarded above: | ||
| - | < | + | < |
| - | + | ===== Updating | |
| - | === Upgrading | + | To update VirtualBox to a new version you must shutdown all the running VMs. You can do this by first looking to see which VMs are running ('' |
| < | < | ||
| VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.8 | VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.8 | ||
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| [jmagochi@biovbox ~]$ sudo / | [jmagochi@biovbox ~]$ sudo / | ||
| - | $ wget http:// | + | $ yum install |
| - | $ ./ | + | |
| - | $ / | + | |
| </ | </ | ||
| + | ===== Commonly-used commands ===== | ||
| + | ==== List your VMs ==== | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | ==== List your running VMs ==== | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | ==== Autostart VMs at host boot ==== | ||
| + | ---- | ||
| - | ===== Expanding a Virtual Disk ===== | + | Two Methods: |
| - | There is no way to expand a VDI. What you have to do is create a new VDI, boot the virtual machine to a live cd, and copy over the filesystem (either via '' | + | |
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| - | Create new VDI | + | |
| - | Attach to virtual machine and boot with System Rescue CD | + | 1 VBoxTool http:// |
| - | create two partitions with fdisk/ | + | |
| - | * 1: 100 MB, boot, type " | + | |
| - | * 2: 30 GB, type "Linux LVM" (8E) | + | |
| - | Format | + | VBoxTool currently consist only of a set of scripts. With this scripts, virtual |
| + | machines of VirtualBox in a Linux headless server can be controlled. Start, stop, | ||
| + | save, backup and show status of sessions in batch mode from the command line. | ||
| - | ==== LVM setup ==== | + | Usage and installation is tested only on Ubuntu. Please report if a specific |
| + | function is not working in another environment, | ||
| - | Create Physical Volume from device: | + | INSTALLATION |
| - | < | + | |
| - | Create Volume Group from PV: | + | Note. Precede commands with ' |
| - | < | + | |
| - | Create Logical Volumes | + | * Place the main script script/ |
| - | < | + | |
| - | lvcreate -L512M -nLogVol01 VolGroup01< | + | |
| - | Format the new partitions: | + | * Make vboxtool executable: |
| - | < | + | chmod +x /usr/local/bin/vboxtool |
| - | < | + | |
| - | <note important> | + | * Place the init script script/vboxtoolinit in /etc/init.d |
| - | Mount both root partitions: | + | * Make vboxtoolinit executable: |
| - | < | + | chmod +x /etc/init.d/vboxtoolinit |
| - | mount /dev/VolGroup00/ | + | |
| + | * Activate the init script vboxtoolinit: | ||
| + | update-rc.d vboxtoolinit defaults 99 10 | ||
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| + | * Create a folder | ||
| + | configuration section below, type ' | ||
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| + | Note. To remove vboxtoolinit from autostart: update-rc.d -f vboxtoolinit remove | ||
| - | Copy everything over: | + | CONFIGURATION |
| - | < | + | |
| - | Mount both boot partitions: | + | Note. Configuration from vboxtool does *not* taking place on *running* sessions, |
| - | < | + | so save or stop all sessions before issueing the autostart command. |
| - | mount /dev/sda1 / | + | |
| - | Copy everything over: | + | * Create / |
| - | <code>rsync -xrlptgoEv --delete / | + | <session name>,<VRDP-port> |
| - | Force SElinux to relabel all files on boot (or else SElinux will deny you to log in) | ||
| - | < | ||
| - | Unmount all mounted logical volumes | ||
| - | Install GRUB on the new VDI | ||
| - | < | ||
| - | > root (hd0,0) | ||
| - | > setup (hd0)</ | ||
| - | ==== Renaming the new volume group==== | ||
| - | Deativate all logical volumes | ||
| - | < | ||
| - | Rename old volume group | ||
| - | < | ||
| - | Rename new volume group | ||
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