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- | ===== VirtualBox ===== | + | ====== VirtualBox |
- | VirtualBox is a free/opensource Hypervisor | + | VirtualBox is a free, open-source hypervisor |
* [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
- | ==== Commonly-used commands | + | ====== Tips ====== |
- | List your VMs: | + | ===== Optimal settings for Linux guests ===== |
- | < | + | Guest operating systems are not like host operating systems. |
- | List all running VMs: | + | |
- | < | + | |
- | ===== Create a VM ===== | + | * Set the IO scheduler |
- | Copy an ISO to your home directory: | + | * Edit the grub command line to set the default IO scheduler, usually in /// |
- | < | + | * Install guest additions (VirtualBox |
- | * SSH to VM server: 172.26.0.205 | + | * Run a virtual machine-specific kernel: |
- | < | + | * Ubuntu: linux-image-virtual |
- | * start the virtualbox application | + | * Mount filesystems with '' |
- | < | + | |
- | * Follow the wizard to create | + | |
- | - Base Memory: less than 512 MB | + | |
- | | + | |
- | - Hard disk size: less than 30Gb | + | |
===== Networking ===== | ===== Networking ===== | ||
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- | ==== Updating VirtualBox | + | ===== Commonly-used commands ===== |
- | 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 ('' | + | ==== List your VMs ==== |
- | <file>[jmagochi@biovbox ~]$ VBoxManage | + | <code>$ VBoxManage |
- | VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.8 | + | ==== List your running VMs ==== |
- | (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, | + | < |
- | All rights reserved. | + | |
- | 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100% | + | ===== Updating VirtualBox ===== |
- | [jmagochi@biovbox ~]$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv stop | + | === Stop any running VMs === |
+ | Either shut down or "save state" for any running VMs. | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | jmagochi | ||
+ | jmagochi | ||
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+ | As the user who owns the VM, save the VM's state: | ||
- | $ yum install virtualbox-3.1 | + | < |
- | </file> | + | $ VBoxManage controlvm nobu savestate |
+ | $ VBoxManage controlvm lims savestate | ||
+ | $ exit | ||
+ | # su - aorth | ||
+ | $ VBoxManage controlvm b0237553-9653-4461-bd0e-d4d316c16d4f savestate | ||
+ | $ exit</ | ||
+ | === Update VirtualBox === | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | === Resume VMs === | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | $ VBoxHeadless -s nobu & | ||
+ | $ VBoxHeadless -s lims & | ||
+ | $ exit | ||
+ | # su - aorth | ||
+ | $ VBoxHeadless -s b0237553-9653-4461-bd0e-d4d316c16d4f -v off &</code> |