From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 18 17:46:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85C7D2E for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:46:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ateve@sohara.org) Received: from uk1rly2283.eechost.net (relay01a.mail.uk1.eechost.net [217.69.40.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BEB58FC0C for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:46:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [31.186.37.179] (helo=rpi-1.marelmo.com) by uk1rly2283.eechost.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta8xY-0004dA-Vc for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:47:09 +0000 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.marelmo.com) by rpi-1.marelmo.com with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta8xP-0001gr-AN for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:46:59 +0000 Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:46:07 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host Message-Id: <20121118174607.dbf7312a9da1595845592f8b@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20121118140801.GA51290@ozzmosis.com> References: <50A65471.7050706@a1poweruser.com> <20121116121408.71d86341@papi> <50A65F76.2060009@a1poweruser.com> <20121116130302.37a87580@papi> <50A6AD92.2000904@a1poweruser.com> <50a7547f.pE0dkKlRM7DyQvw3%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20121117103708.1cb34db4@papi> <50A8E7AA.6090906@a1poweruser.com> <20121118140801.GA51290@ozzmosis.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Auth-Info: 15567@permanet.ie (plain) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:46:28 -0000 On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:08:01 +1100 andrew clarke wrote: > On Sun 2012-11-18 08:50:34 UTC-0500, Fbsd8 (fbsd8@a1poweruser.com) wrote: > > > By design virtualbox requires a desktop on the host to use the > > virtualbox built in config screens and the only way to access a > > configured and installed guest VM is from a remote PC with a desktop. > > No, you can create and configure VirtualBox VMs using the command-line > VBoxManage. I do this over SSH. See the VirtualBox manual (PDF). There are even command line tools such as Vagrant for managing virtual box VMs using baseline images and definition files to create VMs on the fly in response to a simple command. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith