[OpenIndiana-discuss] Running VirtualBox

[Edward Ned Harvey]

I installed openindiana server (headless).  I want to run VirtualBox.  (At
least, I think I want to run VirtualBox, to host windows & linux guests, but
I'm open to suggestions.)
 
How does one run VirtualBox remotely?  I tried remoting in with X
forwarding, and then launching VirtualBox.  It starts out well, but when I
try to create my first VM, it complains, permission denied trying to access
USB subsystem.  So I guess it needs to run as root ... But I can't login as
root over ssh, and I can't "sudo VirtualBox" because X11 forwarding gets
denied.  (I tried every variation of xhost + and setting DISPLAY that I can
think of, but haven't gotten sudo X applications to run yet.)
 
What is everyone else doing?
 
Eventually, I'll want to make my guest VM's startup/shutdown automatically,
without needing a GUI client connected.  And it sure would be nice to be
able to connect/disconnect to the GUI console of the guests when I want
to...
 
Thanks for suggestions.