first use of virtualbox on fbsd host

[Kevin Oberman]

There are many sites with information on use of vboxmanage, but the first I
found is
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-import-and-export-vitualbox-appliances-from-the-command-line/

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, 12:07 Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> To cleanly move a VB VM to a new system, it's usually best to export it to
> an OVA, copy the .ova file to the new system, and import it. I Google and
> found a page with a nice set of commands to do it without a GUI, but my
> system is in transition to a new box and it will take a bit of hunting to
> find it.
>
> If I find it, I'll follow up. Or, maybe someone else will post it.
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, 11:56 Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 3:50 PM S. Franks <bahamasfranks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Y'all,
>> >
>> > I've got some machines on my linux host I'd like to try on the fbsd
>> host.
>> >
>> > On linux, it's easy: copy the .vbox, and .vdi file to
>> > /home/$USER/.VirtualBox folder, run the gui, and it's right there in the
>> > list. If not, manually edit the vbox file with a txt editor to fix the
>> path
>> > that's causing compliants. Edit vbox.xml file worst-case. Simple.
>> >
>> > I suppose I should mention the fbsd server is headless, which is
>> probably
>> > 9/10th's of the problem, since I can't run the control gui so it's never
>> > created the deafult files? I searched the entire system, there's no vbox
>> > xml file, probably cause I haven't ever successfully loaded a machine on
>> > this system? There doesn't seem to be any vbox folders or files in /etc,
>> > /usr/local/etc, /usr/share, etc. The handbook only tells you how to
>> install
>> > vbox, with zero info on making it run (so I guess it's supposed to 'just
>> > work' for people who aren't idiots; sadly not a set which includes
>> myself
>> > apparently).
>> >
>> > I did convince some of the shell commands to error out with references
>> to
>> > /root/.config/virtualbox, but I can't seem to get the commands to
>> recognize
>> > the vbox and vdi files when I place them in that path either. Totally
>> > stumpped!
>> >
>> > Many thanks!
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>>
>> Even if it's headless, you can still run VirtualBox GUI through SSH with
>> x-forwarding.
>> --
>> Mario Lobo
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