Virtualbox and Windows

[Gregory Nowak]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 10:56:03AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> If I go the route with command line to Virtualbox, what commands do I
> need?

vboxmanage, and vboxheadless are probably your best
friends. vboxmanage takes some getting used to, but does do everything
from guest creation through guest management.

> I'm brand new to this part of the Linux world and at this point,
> I have not seen any vbox documentation.  On what to setup.  I was
> thinking some vbox users on this list might have some configs that
> would be good to jump off from.

http://www.virtualbox.org
more specifically
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/

>  I looked over some stuff from google
> searching but really didn't learn anything I didn't already know.  I
> assume the command line parms or configs determine partition size or I
> should say, amount of memory allocated to run the guest and such.
>

Yes, vboxmanage lets you do all that. One note though, if you choose
to run without using the GUI, you'll need to use an rdp client to
control a guest started with vboxheadless. As I described a few months
ago on this list, rdesktop connecting to a port on localhost should
work well here, and doesn't require much of an X11 environment to
run. The only big problem with rdesktop is that there's no way to kill
it from the keyboard once you connect to a remote machine, and
virtualbox provides no way to disconnect from the rdp session inside
of the guest without first halting that guest as far as I know.

Greg

 
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