From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 19 20:12:45 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E13D811F for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3171C12 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:12:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UTHfd-0001yZ-VO for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:12:33 +0200 Received: from cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.21.186.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:12:33 +0200 Received: from walterhurry by cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:12:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Walter Hurry Subject: Re: Virtual Box on FreeBSD Server Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <1365927098231-5803691.post@n5.nabble.com> <20130414103154.3a49e6de.freebsd@edvax.de> <1365996890840-5803879.post@n5.nabble.com> <1366004997052-5803900.post@n5.nabble.com> <516F9DD2.6030200@coosemans.org> <1366270329916-5804740.post@n5.nabble.com> <20130418095129.7c6dc564.freebsd@edvax.de> <1366281671523-5804757.post@n5.nabble.com> <20130418133528.GA13082@eris.bzerk.org> <1366293077054-5804802.post@n5.nabble.com> <1366375031.22246.YahooMailNeo@web165004.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) 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: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:12:45 -0000 On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:37:11 -0700, Bill Tillman wrote: > I've been looking into setting up some Linux servers but instead I'm > thinking that I could use Virtual Box on my FreeBSD servers to do this. > I would like some seasoned advice from others on the following before > proceeding: > > 1. As I understand it you can install Virtual Box from the ports > collection. But then I see the instructions in the Handbook: > >       To launch VirtualBox, type from a Xorg session: > % VirtualBox So am I to assume the only way to run Virtual Box is to > have Xorg installed and running on the FreeBSD server?  Which is a drag > because my current FreeBSD servers are exactly that, servers, and do not > have the fancy video cards, monitors, etc.. to run Xorg. Is there an > alternative to running the interface from Xorg. I'm a command line > fanatic when it comes to servers. Or would I be able to install Xvnc or > something like that and run it from one of my Windows 7 machines which > has all the fancy video capabilities? > > > 2. Once installed, I will be able to install something like Fedora or > openSUSE? These will only be installed as server so I can run databases > like MySQL in the Linux environment. The client I'm working for insists > on using SUSE...no FreeBSD allowed. They think it's poison and are very > biased on this so there's no talking them out of it. I need to gain > experience using these databases on Linux, not FreeBSD. > > 3. I'm going to buy a 1 TB SATA drive for this setup. It will be running > on an AMD64 server with FreeBSD 9.x or whatever is the latest release as > of this weekend. > > 4. There is also a Plan 'B' to go the other way. Since I already have > two i7 machines running Windows 7, perhaps it might be better to install > the Windows version of Virtual Box or even VMWare and create my > instances of Linux on one or even both of these machines. > 1. No you don't need X -you can run headless on the server. The VirtualBox manual gives details of this. 2. Yes, that's the whole point of virtual machines. 3. 9.1 is fine. 4. No comment. I don't use Windows (and prefer to keep it that way); only Unix, FreeBSD and Linux.