virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

Steve O'Hara-Smith ateve at sohara.org
Sun Nov 18 17:46:28 UTC 2012


On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:08:01 +1100
andrew clarke <mail at ozzmosis.com> wrote:

> On Sun 2012-11-18 08:50:34 UTC-0500, Fbsd8 (fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com) wrote:
> 
> > By design virtualbox requires a desktop on the host to use the
> > virtualbox built in config screens and the only way to access a
> > configured and installed guest VM is from a remote PC with a desktop.
> 
> No, you can create and configure VirtualBox VMs using the command-line
> VBoxManage. I do this over SSH. See the VirtualBox manual (PDF).

	There are even command line tools such as Vagrant for managing
virtual box VMs using baseline images and definition files to create VMs on
the fly in response to a simple command.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <ateve at sohara.org>


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