VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2.0 On A Headless Ubuntu 8.04


 
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VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2.0 On A Headless Ubuntu 8.04

This guide explains how to run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 on a headless Ubuntu 8.04 server. Normally, you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to virtual machines over a remote desktop connection.

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VIRT-MANAGER(1) 					      Virtual Machine Manager						   VIRT-MANAGER(1)

NAME
virt-manager - display the virtual machine desktop management tool SYNOPSIS
virt-manager [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION
virt-manager is a desktop tool for managing virtual machines. It provides the ability to control the lifecycle of existing machines (bootup/shutdown,pause/resume,suspend/restore), provision new virtual machines and various types of store, manage virtual networks, access the graphical console of virtual machines, and view performance statistics, all done locally or remotely. OPTIONS
The following options are accepted when running "virt-manager": -h, -help Display command line help summary -c URI, --connect=URI Specify the hypervisor connection URI --debug List debugging output to the console (normally this is only logged in ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log). This function implies --no-fork. --no-fork Don't fork "virt-manager" off into the backround: run it blocking the current terminal. Useful for seeing possible errors dumped to stdout/stderr. --no-dbus Disable the DBus API used for remote control of the "virt-manager" UI --no-conn-autostart Don't autostart any libvirt connections when launching "virt-manager". --show-domain-creator Display the wizard for creating new virtual machines --show-domain-editor=UUID Display the dialog for editing properties of the virtual machine with unique ID matching "UUID" --show-domain-performance=UUID Display the dialog for monitoring performance of the virtual machine with unique ID matching "UUID" --show-domain-console=UUID Display the virtual console of the virtual machine with unique ID matching "UUID" --show-host-summary Display the main window summarizing performance for all virtual machines on the host. AUTHOR
Written by Daniel P. Berrange. BUGS
Please see http://virt-manager.org/page/BugReporting <http://virt-manager.org/page/BugReporting> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Red Hat, Inc, and various contributors. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html". There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
virsh(1), "virt-viewer(1)", the project website "http://virt-manager.org" 2011-10-27 VIRT-MANAGER(1)