[Cialug] Virtualbox under Ubuntu 11.04

[Michael Davis]

Command line VirtualBox management is available through VBoxManage, however,
that may or may not be the best solution.

Whether or not you should have used the client version depends on what you
want to do.  It is possible to install a GUI on the server version, it just
doesn't come installed by default.  sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop will
give you the full Ubuntu desktop, or to install it without addins like a
mail client and office software you can run sudo apt-get install
--no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop

Are you planning on only using this box for hosting virtual machines?  If
so, you may want to look into a hypervisor solution like Xen. A hypervisor
would allow you to use fewer of your limited resources running the host OS
and save those resources for the virtual machines.

Michael Davis
ECpE - Iowa State University
CHS Desktop Operations Staff
IASG Treasurer



On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 server version on a machine and then tried to
> install virtualbox on the same machine.   The problem that I seem to have
> encountered is that virtualbox appears to require a graphical desktop which
> is not installed with the server version.   The machine is a dual core
> processor laptop with 1 GB of memory.
>
> First question is does virtualbox require the graphical desktop instead of
> a command line interface?
> Second question is should I have used the client version instead of the
> server version of Ubuntu 11?
>
> Anyone have any experience that could share some of that expertise with me?
>
> Thanks
>
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