Importing Legacy Windows XP or Windows 2003 from Virtualbox to Proxmox Rumi, December 28, 2023 Problem Statement: I have an old Windows 2003 32 bit server running in Virtualbox. Since Virtualbox is under decommissioned, it is intended to be migrated to Proxmox VE Before Migration or export of VM from Virtualbox, following .reg file is required to be installed on Windows 2003 server to avoid… Continue Reading
Install VirtualBox legacy version 5.x on CentOS 7 Rumi, June 11, 2022 Install Dependencies Install Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) # sudo yum install epel-release wget -y Install Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) # sudo yum –enablerepo=epel install dkms -y This will install quite a few packages: Install Development Tools # sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools” -y Continue Reading
How to remove Virtualbox extpack Rumi, May 19, 2021 The following commands show examples how to list extension packs and remove one: $ VBoxManage list extpacks Extension Packs: 1 Pack no. 0: Oracle Virtual Machine VirtualBox Extension Pack Version: 4.1.12 Revision: 77218 Edition: Description: USB 2.0 Host Controller, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM with E1000 support. VRDE Module: VBoxVRDP Usable:… Continue Reading
Virtualbox fixing VRDE on 0.0.0.0 instead 127.0.0.1 Rumi, October 21, 2020 By default, Remote Display only works on localhost / 127.0.0.1 and cannot be accessed by ip address or hostname. Check VRDE / Remote Display IP Address You can check VRDE / Remote Display ip address using the following methods: Open command prompt and run netstat -an |find /i “listening” or netstat -an |find /i “[PORT_NUMBER]” and you shall notice it is listening on 127.0.0.1:PORT. Continue Reading
Reinstall VirtualBox on Ubuntu & CentOS Rumi, January 8, 2020 For Ubuntu To remove virtualbox sudo dpkg –list virtualbox-* sudo apt autoremove –purge virtualbox* dpkg -l virtualbox* | grep ^i Remove all PPAs from sources.list and source.list.d directory mkdir ~/apt-tmp sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* ~/apt-tmp Make sure there is nothing except official repositories sources in /etc/sources.list. And update your sources: sudo apt… Continue Reading
Resizing a VirtualBox Virtual Hard Disk Rumi, October 6, 2019 Prerequisites Before you start this procedure you’ll need to do the following. Make sure you have the VBoxManage command-line tool installed on your host system. Download the ISO for a GParted Live CD or else a Linux Live CD using a Linux distribution that includes the GParted partition editor utility. IMPORTANT: If the virtual disk… Continue Reading
Install VirtualBox on Centos 6 / 7 Rumi, September 6, 2019 Step 1 – Add Required Yum Repositories Firstly you are required to add VirtualBox yum repository in your system. Download repository file from its official site and place it under at /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo .First navigate to /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and use one of below commands as per your operating system. cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/virtualbox.repo… Continue Reading
Converting OVA for use with KVM / QCOW2 Rumi, September 21, 2018February 18, 2019 The OVA file is nothing more than a TAR archive, containing the .OVF and .VMDK files. Easy! Using Evergreen ILS for example: ~ $ file Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ova Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ova: POSIX tar archive (GNU). I’ts possible to use the tar command to list the contents ~ $ tar -tf Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ova Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ovf Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze-disk1.vmdk Simply… Continue Reading
Convert .ova and import it on Proxmox KVM virtualization Rumi, January 8, 2018 Let’s start uploading the exported ova file to the proxmox server. Extract the OVA file: tar -xvf *.ova This should output a couple of files from the OVA container, it should include an OVF file, which is the VM Defenition file, and a VMDK file, which is the actual hard… Continue Reading
Phpvirtualbox fix on 5.1 using 5.0 Rumi, October 12, 2017October 12, 2017 I was able to get v5.0-5 working with vbox 5.1 by commenting out the version check line and replacing it with a static value in the endpoints/api.php file: // $response[‘data’][‘responseData’][‘phpvboxver’] = @constant(‘PHPVBOX_VER’); $response[‘data’][‘responseData’][‘phpvboxver’] = “5.1-0”; Src: https://sourceforge.net/p/phpvirtualbox/discussion/general/thread/565b7f31/ Continue Reading