Getting Shared Folders working properly in Debian 9 in VirtualBox

Running Debian 9 in VirtualBox is easy but figuring out how to get Shared Folders working properly can be a hassle. Here’s how to do it. Assumptions: – You have a VirtualBox VM set up with Debian 9.3 and nothing more. – The user who’s running the X sessions is …

How to set up a VirtualBox server in Debian 9: web interface, autostart, backup

This article describes how to set up a VirtualBox server in Debian 9 (Stretch): Installing VirtualBox VirtualBox web interface: phpVirtualBox Set up and use VMs Automatically start PhpVirtualBox on boot Automatically pause VMs on reboot/shutdown and resume them on boot Set up a backup system Troubleshooting If this article has …

How to install phpVirtualBox on Debian Jessie

Here are my notes on installing phpVirtualBox, a webbased graphical interface for VirtualBox, now recommended from VirtualBox’s site! These notes are for Debian 8.2 using Apache. The web interface looks very similar to the original VirtualBox GUI and works very well. If you haven’t done so already install Apache and …

Solved: Chrome/Chromium mouse cursor troubles in Linux on VirtualBox

Well, not solved. But worked-around. Chrome and Chromium 42 (and I’ve read 41 as well) have a weird mouse cursor problem in Linux on VirtualBox where the cursor wouldn’t change to a text cursor instead of an arrow pointy thingy. Long story short: it’s a bug in Chrome/Chromium and here’s …

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