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A a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
Installation

  • Linux Host - (CentOS wiki page
    yum install libGLU libXmu SDL
    yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
    yum install kernel-devel kernel-PAE-devel
    export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-164.15.1.el5PAE-i686
    yum install yum-priorities
    cd /extra/src
    wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
    rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
    rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
    rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
    yum check-update
    yum install dkms
    cd /extra/src
    wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.1.6/VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.6_59338_rhel5-1.i386.rpm
    rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.6_59338_rhel5-1.i386.rpm
    usermod -G vboxusers <username>

VBoxTool
VBoxTool provides effective control of virtual machines of VirtualBox (virtualization solution) on a Linux headless server.

  • Download the source
    cd /extra/src
    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/vboxtool/vboxtool/0.4/vboxtool-0.4.zip?use_mirror=hivelocity
    unzip -d vboxtool vboxtool-0.4.zip
    cd vboxtool
  • Place the main script, script/vboxtool, in /usr/local/bin:
    cp script/vboxtool /usr/local/bin/
    chmod +x /usr/local/bin/vboxtool
  • Place the init script, script/vboxtoolinit, in /etc/init.d and activate it:
    cp script/vboxtoolinit /etc/init.d
    chmod +x /etc/init.d/vboxtoolinit
    update-rc.d vboxtoolinit defaults 99 10
  • Create a config folder /etc/vboxtool:
    mkdir /etc/vboxtool
  • Configuration
    • Create /etc/vboxtool/machines.conf

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