[OpenIndiana-discuss] Running VirtualBox

[James C. McPherson]

On  9/08/12 11:23 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
...
> For headless startup/shutdown of prepared VMs (as usual SMF service
> instances), again, see the http://vboxsvc.sourceforge.net/ project,
> feel free to ask questions or add RFEs if I still missed something
> useful ;)
> The method script can also be used as a CLI script to switch VMs
> from SMF to GUI mode and back via "savestate" to disk.
>
> For most of the time you can use RDP consoles to VMs instead, but
> yes GUI can be useful. Alternately, there are some Web-GUIs to
> VirtualBox which essentially recreate the X11 GUI equivalent in
> HTML (for general administrative tasks without need for X11), and
> often include an RDP client to conveniently connect to consoles.

If you're using bridged networking, then you can ssh in, or use
xdmcp (if you set it up). The vboxheadless service is handy to have
as well too. I've got it configured, but haven't needed to use it
in quite a while since my use-cases changed.


James C. McPherson
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