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Start the guest VM by clicking on Start button. Once you successfully logged in to the server, you can view a list of VMs that are created on VirtualBox.īefore launching a guest VM, edit its settings in order to enable remote display for the VM.Ĭlick on the checkbox for enabling remote display server.

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URL: Username/password: Linux user for VirtualBox web service, and its password.

To connect to a VirtualBox server, click on Connect button in the tool bar. The screenshot of Remotebox looks like the following.

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To run RemoteBox on a client host, download its binary package from its official website, and simply run remotebox command.

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Install and Configure RemoteBox on Client Host To install prerequisites on Fedora, CentOS or RHEL based client host: $ sudo yum install perl-Gtk2 perl-SOAP-Lite rdesktop To install prerequisites on Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Debian based client host: $ sudo apt-get install libgtk2-perl libsoap-lite-perl rdesktop Prior to running RemoteBox on a client host, there are several prerequisite packages that you must install first. Requirements for Installing RemoteBox on Client Hostįor RemoteBox to communicate with the server properly, the server and client hosts are NOT required to run the same operating system. Next, proceed to install RemoteBox on a client host. This completes VirtualBox server configuration. Unix 3 STREAM CONNECTED 152848 15855/vboxwebsrv Start VirtualBox web service: $ sudo service vboxweb-service startĬheck the status of VirtualBox web service: $ sudo service vboxweb-service statusĪlso, verify that VirtualBox web service is listening on port 18083. $ sudo chown vbox:vboxusers /home/vbox/.VirtualBox $ sudo chown vbox:vboxusers /var/log/vboxwebservice.logĬreate VirtualBox configuration directory: $ sudo mkdir /home/vbox/.VirtualBox Next, initialize and set the ownership of the log file: $ sudo touch /var/log/vboxwebservice.log

In the configuration file, VBOXWEB_USER is set to the Linux user that you will run VirtualBox web service as, and VBOXWEB_HOST corresponds to the IP address of the server. VBOXWEB_LOGFILE='/var/log/vboxwebservice.log' To configure VirtualBox web service on the server, proceed as follows.įirst, create a configuration file for the web service at /etc/default/virtualbox. Here I will create a new user (e.g., vbox), and a new group (e.g., vboxusers) dedicated to VirtualBox web service. If you run VirtualBox web service as a particular Linux user, you can only control VMs run by the same user. Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.12-84980.vbox-extpackįinally, you need to set up VirtualBox web service on the server, so that VirtualBox clients such as RemoteBox can communicate with VirtualBox remotely.īefore doing that, first determine which Linux user VirtualBox web service will run as. The extension pack is needed for remote desktop display and PXE booting.Īssuming that the version of the installed VirtualBox is 4.2.16, you can install the corresponding VirtualBox extension pack on the server as follows. On the headless server side, you need to install VirtualBox 4.2.0 and higher.īesides VirtualBox, you also need to install VirtualBox extension pack on the server. RemoteBox will be installed on the client host. You also need a separate Linux desktop host as a VirtualBox client host. RemoteBox allows you to connect to a remote headless server where VirtualBox is installed, and to manage and interact with VirtualBox VMs.įor this setup, you need at least one headless server host where VirtualBox is installed.

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In this tutorial, I will explain how to manage VirtualBox VMs on a remote headless server.įor remote management of VirtualBox, you can use RemoteBox which is an open-source VirtualBox client software. However, VirtualBox can in fact run on headless servers, and VirtualBox VMs launched in headless mode can be managed remotely from an external VirtualBox front-end client. Most VirtualBox users may think that VirtualBox is only intended for use in a desktop environment, where virtual machine (VM) management is done via VirtualBox GUI. How to manage VirtualBox VMs on a remote headless server