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| - | ===== VirtualBox | + | ===== VirtualBox ===== |
| - | ==== Commonly-used commands ==== | + | VirtualBox is a free/opensource Hypervisor from Sun Microsystems. |
| - | To change between "not attached", | + | |
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| - | Set the boot order: | + | |
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| - | Add a shared folder: | + | |
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| - | Acpi Vm: | + | |
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| - | Change rdp address: | + | |
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| - | Change the Authentication type: | + | |
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| - | **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: | + | |
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| - | 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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| $ yum install virtualbox-3.1 | $ yum install virtualbox-3.1 | ||
| </ | </ | ||
| + | ===== Commonly-used commands ===== | ||
| + | ==== List your VMs ==== | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | ==== List your running VMs ==== | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | ==== Autostart VMs at host boot ==== | ||
| + | ---- | ||
| + | Two Methods: | ||
| + | - http:// | ||
| + | - http:// | ||
| - | ===== Expanding | + | VBoxTool currently consist only of a set of scripts. With this scripts, virtual |
| - | There is no way to expand a VDI. What you have to do is create a new VDI, boot the 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. | |
| - | Create new VDI | + | |
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| - | Attach to virtual machine and boot with System Rescue CD | + | |
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| - | Create two partitions with fdisk/ | + | |
| - | * 1: 100 MB, boot, type " | + | |
| - | * 2: 30 GB, type "Linux LVM" (8E) | + | |
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| - | Format | + | |
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| - | ==== LVM setup ==== | + | |
| - | Create Physical Volume from device: | + | Usage and installation is tested only on Ubuntu. Please report if a specific |
| - | < | + | function is not working in another environment, |
| - | Create Volume Group from PV: | + | INSTALLATION |
| - | < | + | |
| - | Create Logical Volumes in VG: | + | Note. Precede commands with ' |
| - | < | + | |
| - | lvcreate -L512M -nLogVol01 VolGroup01</ | + | |
| - | Format | + | * Place the main script script/vboxtool in /usr/local/bin |
| - | < | + | |
| - | < | + | |
| - | <note important> | + | * Make vboxtool executable: |
| + | chmod +x /usr/local/ | ||
| - | Mount both root partitions: | + | * Place the init script script/vboxtoolinit in /etc/init.d |
| - | < | + | |
| - | mount / | + | |
| - | Copy everything over: | + | * Make vboxtoolinit executable: |
| - | < | + | chmod +x /etc/init.d/vboxtoolinit |
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| + | * 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 | ||
| - | Mount both boot partitions: | + | CONFIGURATION |
| - | < | + | |
| - | mount /dev/sda1 / | + | |
| - | Copy everything over: | + | Note. Configuration from vboxtool does *not* taking place on *running* sessions, |
| - | < | + | so save or stop all sessions before issueing the autostart command. |
| - | Force SElinux to relabel all files on boot (or else SElinux will deny you to log in) | + | * Create |
| - | < | + | |
| - | 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 | ||
| - | < | ||
| - | Now shutdown the machine and remove the old VDI. | ||