Migrate existing Windows installations to VirtualBox Rumi, June 28, 2011June 28, 2011 Windows installations, unlike Linux, cannot easily be moved from one hardware to another. This is not just due to Microsoft's activation mechanism but the fact that the installed kernel and drivers depend on the actual hardware. This document explains the common pitfalls and how to workaround these. We assume that… Continue Reading
Virtualbox on Debian Wiki Rumi, May 27, 2011 VirtualBox is an x86 emulator developed by innotek (bought by Sun/Oracle) comparable to VMware. A version called VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is a relatively new program and still has some minor… Continue Reading
PHPVirtualbox on Virtualbox Rumi, May 23, 2011May 23, 2011 Unlike VMWare, VirtualBox guests are not global; they are owned by the user that creates them. Therefore, it is important to create a user account explicitly for this purpose. Create this user account BEFORE installing VirtualBox. Install VirtualBox from this account and perform all VirtualBox operations from this account. For… Continue Reading
Clone Virtualbox Guest in Linux Rumi, May 22, 2011 First off make sure your Guest virtual machine is shut down and not running or suspended and then run: $ VBoxManage clonevdi source.vdi target.vdi This may take a few minutes depending on the size of your VM Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.8 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation… Continue Reading
Configure openfiler iscsi with vmware Rumi, May 14, 2011May 14, 2011 Once you have OpenFiler installed you can then access a web based management console which allows you to configure your new OpenFiler installation. Opening a web browser and pointing it to the IP address (ie: https://<IP of OpenFiler>:446> of the OpenFiler server you should be presented with a logon screen… Continue Reading
Rumi, May 8, 2011May 8, 2011 Installing VirtualBox From Precompiled Binaries First, we install the packages gdeb, gedbi, and gdebi-core. Open the Synaptic Package Manager (System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager): You can use the search function to find the three packages. Select them for installation and click on Apply. Close Synaptic after the packages… Continue Reading
VirtualBox Remote Rumi, May 8, 2011 VBoxRemote is an open source web interface to VirtualBox. Features Remote management and aggregation of multiple VirtualBox servers. Enterprise access control features. VirtualBox server clustering and live migration. Easily configure and provision VirtualBox Servers. Quick and easy web based creation and configuration of Virtual Machines. Platform independence. (VirtualBox + Web… Continue Reading
Start a Virtualbox VM as a service Rumi, May 7, 2011May 7, 2011 This program requires VirtualBox 3 (not the OSE version) for Windows. At the moment the program is being rewritten to support VirtualBox 4. Requirements to compile this project: .NET 4 TlbImp2 #develop Download latest version http://virtualboxserverservice.googlecode.com/files/VBoxService-setup_2.2.0.41154-BETA2.exe – New BETA2 version http://virtualboxserverservice.googlecode.com/files/VBoxService-setup_2.2.0.39135-BETA.exe – BETA version http://virtualboxserverservice.googlecode.com/files/VBoxService-setup_2.1.3834.23500.exe – Stable version Src:… Continue Reading
VBoxTool Rumi, May 6, 2011June 11, 2018 Provides effective control of virtual machines of VirtualBox (virtualization solution) on a Linux headless server, published as free and open source software. Currently VirtualBox lacks a decent management environment for controlling virtual sessions on a headless server environment. VBoxTool mimics partly Virtual Machine Manager which controls sessions for other virtualization solutions like… Continue Reading
Virtual Machine Manager Rumi, May 6, 2011May 6, 2011 The "Virtual Machine Manager" application (virt-manager for short package name) is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines. It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance & resource utilization statistics. The detailed view graphs performance & utilization over time. Wizards enable the creation of new domains,… Continue Reading