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 …
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 …
Testlab This article describes how to set up a virtual LAN with a virtual router and virtual computers. It is isolated from your physical LAN and meant to test setups with multiple computers in the same LAN. Intended audience This is for everyone who wants to experiment with networked servers …
Here’s a script that will loop through the virtual machines in VirtualBox and exports them. Note: a new version of this script is available here. Why not use snapshots? I’ve seen scripts that will take a snapshot and then copy the ‘raw’ vm over to a backup disk. The advantages …
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 …
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 …
Here’s an AutoHotKey script to take screenshots of Oracle VirtualBox VMs. The script takes a screenshot, saves it to your disk and places the image on your clipboard. It uses IrfanView (free) to put the image on the clipboard. It assumes the path to i_view32, IrfanView’s main executable, is on …