TKLPatch for VirtualBox headless (?)
Update: Revision R with PAE enabled attached. Patch is for phpvirtualbox 4.0-4b: This version includes an excellent authentication mechanism. With this revision done, there is no more need for the default password. Really butchered some python I'm afraid - see the damage in inithooks. Sorry Alon!
As of revision R, phpvirtualbox includes authentication. Until I figure it out, the default username and password are admin.
ISOs derived from the patch are available at http://9while9.com.
Thanks to the kind dev of phpvirtualbox, Ian Moore, conf now pulls the latest revision of phpvirtualbox. Created Apache configuration for phpvirtualbox (rather than modifying default) and it's now enabled by conf. There's still work to do. But now, /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup happens post install, after security updates. Download and install of Extension Pack is offered as a choice, post install, post security updates (my first dialog box...I learn stuff). I have added samba, webmin-samba, and have, I think, fully configured a share for at /var/virtualbox/import. So if I understand licensing at all, I think the ISO produced by the patch can be distributed since the installation of the element with the restristive license, extension pack, has been removed and is downloaded based on the user's decision.
I wanted to experiment with my team with what VirtualBox had to offer headlessly. To install to bare metal, I needed an install medium that wouldn't take up a lot of real estate. Core 11.0 to the rescue. (The marks the first I started to feel invested in 64-bit appliances from TKL, btw.)
So we needed an ISO to burn that would take care of Lucid for us and install VirtualBox 4.0 along the way (yes, both ashamed and dirty).
I prolly shouldn't even post this...because, it doesn't use open-source edition of VirtualBox. Part of our experiment was whether VRDP (VRDE now?) can do better for us than VNC with ESXi infrastructure has been doing (so OSE wasn't an option for us).
So, attached is a TKLPatch for VirtualBox 4.0. We haven't gotten far into the experiment
In any event, if there's feedback, I'd love to hear it. If this gets scrubbed since VB isn't open source, I completely understand. But if anyone finds it helpful as we have, the post was worth it.
Here's a screenshot of phpvirtualbox from the dev's page:
Update: Thanks Liraz! I've included authenication, through Apache, to protect phpvirtualbox from potential abuse.
Overlay and Explanation:
overlay/etc/apache2/sites-available - Modified default to include authentication suggestions between <Directory /> tags.
overlay/etc/confconsole/services.txt - A list of services at startup. Actually, you can access the phpvirtualbox interface through http://$ipaddr/vb, virtualbox, or phpvirtualbox.
overlay/usr/local/bin/install_ext - install VirtualBox extension in case it didn't take on first boot
overlay/usr/lib/inithooks/firstboot.d/32virtualboxpass - calls script for setting user virtualbox password
overlay/usr/lib/inithooks/firstboot.d/32InstallExtPack: calls script to setup /etc/init.d/vboxdrv
overlay/usr/lib/inithooks/firstboot.d/99sethtpass: calls script to ask for htaccess password (sloppy)
overlay/usr/lib/inithooks/bin/EnableVBExtPack.sh: sets up vboxdrv and installs VB extension pack
overlay/usr/lib/inihools/bin/SetWebPass.sh: asks for password for web access for user virtualbox
overlay/usr/lib/inithooks/bin/vboxsetpass: dialog asking for password for system user virtualbox
Here's Conf for the P-pae version:
#!/bin/bash -ex #By Rik Goldman # Set Hostname HOSTNAME=virtualbox echo "$HOSTNAME" > /etc/hostname sed -i "s|127.0.1.1 \(.*\)|127.0.1.1 $HOSTNAME|" /etc/hosts echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sources.list wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | apt-key add - useradd --home /var/virtualbox virtualbox #If home directory isn't created, create one now and set permissions if [ ! -d /var/virtualbox ]; then mkdir /var/virtualbox mkdir /var/virtualbox/import chown -R virtualbox:virtualbox /var/virtualbox chmod 777 /var/virtualbox/import fi apt-get update DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y \ -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confdef \ -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold \ install build-essential \ dkms \ linux-generic-pae \ linux-headers-generic-pae \ apache2 \ libapache2-mod-php5 \ php5 \ virtualbox-4.0 \ webmin-apache \ dialog \ samba \ webmin-samba \ webmin-phpini #Make a request of VBoxManage so service can be setop #VboxManage list ostypes - doesn't work #Setup vboxdrv #/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup - moved to inithook #Create vbog.cfg echo -e "VBOXWEB_USER=virtualbox" > /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg #Set vboxweb-service service update-rc.d vboxweb-service defaults #Original Way to download, place phpvirtualbox, then clean up #wget http://phpvirtualbox.googlecode.com/files/phpvirtualbox-4.0-3.zip wget `wget -q -O - http://phpvirtualbox.googlecode.com/files/LATEST.txt` -O phpvirtualbox-latest.zip unzip -n phpvirtualbox-latest.zip -d /var/www/ #rm phpvirtualbox-latest.zip #Install extpack - Moved to firstboot.d #wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.2/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Ext... -O /var/virtualbox/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.2-69518.vbox-extpack #VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.2-69518.vbox-extpack #rm /var/virtualbox/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.2-69518.vbox-extpack #Soft Links to phpvirtualbox ln -s /var/www/phpvirtualbox-4.0-3 /var/www/phpvirtualbox ln -s /var/www/phpvirtualbox-4.0-3 /var/www/virtualbox ln -s /var/www/phpvirtualbox-4.0-3 /var/www/vb #Enable virtualbox site a2ensite phpvirtualbox #Stop Services /etc/init.d/apache2 stop /etc/init.d/vboxdrv stop /etc/init.d/vboxweb-service stop
I won't be able to test this on bare metal til the start of the week; aside from adding to the Twin Peaks factor in my life, creating and modifying virtual machines within a virtual machine seems to go well.
My single concern so far is that the phpVirtualBox web interface has no security [taken care of in the current revision].
To apply the patch, download the patch and follow the docs at http://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/tklpatch or our TKLPatch primer at http://9while9.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=8&Itemid=22 . It will take a while for us, but unless we're not suffering from lack of the second ESXi box, we'll be trying this out, and in turn, trying XenServer and in turn ProxMox.
Headless VirtualBox looks sweet!
Anyhow, if you look into other options I would be very interested in your experience and opinions regarding how they compare.
Authentication now from phpvirtualbox
FWIW: As of version 4.0-4b, phpvirtualbox features authentication that requires credentials to interface with the vms from the phpvirtualbox web interface. Tested and works lovely. I've given the code just a cursory glance, but so far I haven't figured out the authentication mechanism. I see the hash, but not how/where to manipulate the password.
Ian's given it a default user name and password: admin. When I figure it out, I'll have the password set on first boot with inithook. In the meantime tklpatches for the new version are attached on the original post.
I'll give another go at the code and see if I can't figure out the secret to storing and retrieving passwords.
Hi Rik, You can
Hi Rik,
You can use:
VBoxManage setextradata global "phpvb/users/admin/pass" "sha512-crypted-password"
Run as the user that will run VirtualBox. To encrypt the password you can use PHP:
php -r "echo(hash('sha512','plain-text-password'));"
Taking these from user input, you may have to escape some characters. I tried to use sha512sum from the comand line, but got a different result than PHP gave. I'm not sure which is correct, but since phpVirtualBox uses PHP, it is the way to go.
Completely:
I=`php -r "echo(hash('sha512','admin'));"
VBoxManage setextradata global "phpvb/users/admin/pass" $I
would reset the admin password to 'admin'. Hope that helped.
Thank you for the jump start
This is very helpful. Thanks for taking the time, Ian. I look forward to getting an effective dialog built for firstboot over the weekend; I'll upload a revised patch as soon as it's tested and I'm confident in the result.
Thanks Ian,
Rik
I feel close, but not there yet
After installing php5-cli, here's the script I've arrived at for firstboot to set the phpvirtualbox admin password. Perhaps someone can catch what I'm doing wrong? After this runs, the password seems to stay the default ("admin"):
#!/bin/bash
#Script intended to set the password for phpvirtualbox admin account.
#A dialog box should ask for the password.
#A second dialog should ask to confirm the password.
#While first and second are not ==, repeat.
#When the two are ==, use php to pass the hashed password.
#Loop as long as first and second are not the same.
first="admin"
second="root"
while [[ "$first" != "$second" ]]
do
dialog --title "Set phpvirtualbox password for ADMIN" \
--passwordbox Password 10 60 2> /tmp/first
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
exit
fi
first=$(cat /tmp/first)
dialog --title "Enter the password again for confirmation" \
--passwordbox Password 10 60 2> /tmp/second
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
exit
fi
second=$(cat /tmp/second)
done
I=$(php -r "echo(hash('sha512', '$first'));") #tried with backticks instead; tried to without single quotes around $first)
VBoxManage setextradata global "phpvb/users/admin/pass" "$I" #tried with and without quotes around $I
I also tried to rule out a problem with the bash and while loop, and used just the last two lines with a fixed password. I got no errors, but the login for phpvirtualbox was still the defaults. Any insights?
Hrmm.. I don't know. As long
Hrmm.. I don't know. As long as you're outputting it to a file, you should probably use sha512sum instead of PHP though. I know I said PHP first, but I didn't think of it going to a file where sha512sum would be useful. My bad :)
.. etc..
dialog --title "Set phpvirtualbox password for ADMIN" \
--passwordbox Password 10 60 2> /tmp/first
.. etc..
I=`sha512sum /tmp/first | awk '{ print $1 }'`
VBoxManage setextradata global "phpvb/users/admin/pass" $I
...(no quotes)...
Let me know if that doesn't do it. Also, I will be releasing 4.0-5 soon. I don't know if you want to wait for that or not. Nothing from your end will change except the files being packaged.
Is JEOS a better starting point?
Thanks Liraz. I've looked over the description of TKL's Jeos and have wondered if it might be a better candidate to patch than the Core for this purpose. Is it missing built-ins we may need, or perhaps any bits of bash I might be relying on?
Thanks for the suggestions, Liraz
Working now on the problem with (no) authentication from phpvirtualbox (otherwise terrific software). I don't know how I'll handle this as an initscript, but for now I'm using htpasswd in conjunction with .htaccess. I'll update to let interested ones know how it's coming.
Isn't it Open Source? I thought it was...
My understanding is that Oracle has changed how things are done. Under Sun (up until v4 I think ) if you wanted an OSE version of VBox you either had to use a 3rd party precompiled version (eg from your OS repo if using Linux) or build from source. Oracle seems to have separated the OSE and PUEL parts and now VBox itself is licenced under GPL v2 with the "VirtualBox extensions" (addon) is licenced under their PUEL.
That's how it reads to me from their Downloads page. Although perhaps I've got it all wrong?!
PS Awesome work Rik! :)
PPS Even if it's not Open Source I still think something cool like this is worthy of a Patch. Obviously it'd never make it as a TKL appliance but others would still find it useful no doubt.
It is open source
Jeremy is correct. VirtualBox is open source. The RDP extension is licensed under their PUEL. An open source VNC based console server (VRDE as they call it) extension is in the works though. This is purely speculation based on virtualbox dev list chatter. Once this is complete, you should be able to run a completely open source VirtualBox environment with console access.
Great work Rik!
Great Rik!
I saw this the other day but was in a hurry and couldn't comment on it. This looks like a very nice appliance! It was my original idea of the tklmaster server (of course with a custom gui) but right now I'm more focused on an OpenVZ version.
But this appliance looks wonderful, and the phpVirtualBox looks like a cool gui! great job!
Thanks! I had no idea about the license.
I thought I was pretty careful with the license, because I felt a high stake in getting it right. Thank you so much for sharing what I wish I had caught on to. So if I understand right, I can take the part of the patch that installs the extension pack out, move it to a script executed from say /usr/local/bin, and we'll have an ISO that can be distributed.
The patched TKL Core works fantastically on a VM. I've just gotten it on bare metal and will report back what I find.
The only part I'm extraoridnarily unhappy with is one of the inithooks - the prompt for the web access password would benefit from a dialog box.
Also, I'll revise services.txt to remove the VBoxWeb line, which does no good.
How not to fracker the whole thing up
So as I'm working with the phpvirtualbox server (works great with the latest version) over the patched Core 11.1 I'm realizing there may be a need to incorporate an easy way to move machines or ISOs onto the server. For me there's sftp; but that's not the best solution for everyone.
On one hand, I'm trying to keep it as lean as possible to be most like pseudo-hypervisor as possible.
As I practical matter, however, I'm considering incorporating samba and configuring a share as we did with the ampache patch.
Alternatively, instead of patching Core, we could patch the File Server appliance. What would you suggest, if you were the suggesting type?
Rik
My 2c
I think that just adding Samba (as it looks like you've done) is the go.
BTW great work with this Rik, this looks like an absolute winner!
I think that some of Adrian's code from his TKLDevEnv server could be useful for this project (ie his WebUI which alllows direct download of TKL appliances from the net). That way users could load any VM image or ISO via Samba or alternatively download TKL VM images online.
Thanks Jedmeister!
I took the leap and incorporated Samba for a really very practical reason - I had to get images there myself, so I thought, for that version at least, see what others think. Thanks for the confirmation!
I owe so much to Ian Moore, the dev of phpvirtualbox; he's done a stellar job.
I've run into snags, but they're all with vb, not at all with phpvirtualbox.
I do want to have a look at what Adrian's done. I think it's a great idea to be able to pull down TKL images and ovf/vmdks. I'm quite curious. On the other hand, I'm trying to keep as lean as possible so as not to hog resources. I was reminded (correct me if I'm wrong here) that I'm not able to access the 8 gig of memory I have on the machine because the OS is 32bit and PAE (?) would require kernel retooling (which I've been trepidatious about since 1998 or so).
In any event, I look forward to seeing what Adrian's doing - I'm even more compelled to do so since Liraz suggested that students build their own DevEnv as part of the curriculum. A fantastic idea, so I'm eager to see what one looks like when someone with Adrian's skills has at it.
PAE kernel theoretically allows access to up to 64GB RAM
But some hardware suffers from a 'memory hole' meaning that you may be 'missing' some of your RAM. Somehow 64bit OS seems to get around that.
I think Samba share was the right decision
I faced the same decision when working con TKLDevEnv. It's the best way to get files on the appliance in an easy manner. In the case of TKLDevEnv, I got 4 shares in the appliances, one for base-images, one for projets (uncompress tklpatches), one for patches (the tar.gz) and one for the output (the patched isos).
The TKLDevEnv project is still under development at a slow pace, I use it everyday on my tkl work, as it's pretty mature at the console level. But I wanted this one to be an easy way for starters to make patches. So I went on developing a django webapp for this. My first milestone was to give a way to easily apply a patch via the web app. That milestone is almost done, I think I'm only missing a css issue to make tabs look nicer. A stupid thing that it's surprisingly hard, as I'm not using javascript at all in this first version.
But on my last test I had a regression: during development, I always runned the webserver as root, but when I finally put the app in place running under apache, it can't run tklpatch due to permissions. So that's the current state, I'm looking for some spare time to test a modified version of tklpatch that uses fakechroot instead of chroot (which needs root permission). Sorry I haven't updated the TKLDevEnv thread, you can see my advances on github http://github/adrianmoya there are two projects, tkldevenv-patch and tkldevenv_webapp.
The code that Jed mentions is the tklpatch-getimage command, which uses a precreated file with all the links to the isos at the sourceforge website. The file was created automatically but some changes in sourceforge broke the code so actually it's a "hard-coded" file. I think the time is comming to ask the TKL Duo for a proper service to get download links, now that with your appliance, my tkldevenv and the future tklmaster I'm also working on, we'll need a standar api to get the turnkey images links for download.
BTW, the webapp also brings a download image option, but it just renders the file of available images and calls tklpatch-getimage when you ask to download a file.
PAE
If core behaves as Lucid does, I reckon I should be able to rely on this to some extent, no?: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnablingPAE
In theory yes, in practice you'll need to test
+1 for what Liraz said!
And once you have tested and confirmed that it works, perhaps you could have 2 patches? One with the standard TKL kernel, one that installs the PAE one.
PAE a success.
As far as I can tell, the PAE enabled patch is a success. I don't know how to tell for sure, but I've got 7 VMs running at a time in a production machine. MOTD recognizes all 8 gig of memory. Is there more testing I should do?
auto start / stop
Looks great! Rik, we should work together on getting VMs auto-start / auto-shutdown going. So that VMs automatically start / stop when the system boots and shuts down. Many people have asked for this on my site, but phpVirtualBox being a PHP script that runs from a web page, cannot do this directly.
Great Idea
Thanks for writing, Ian.
That, Ian, was my first paid thought of the morning after realizing there was a power outage: what can I do to autostart the virtualbox VMs.
With my skillset, I'm not sure what I can contribute. Actually I've a few ideas - starting with looking into vboxshell.py. Because apparently it exists and I'm curious.
I'll write you directly; having thought about it only briefly, I think it migh be ideal to be able to determine which vms start with which priority via the web interface. From there Python or bash could look up which to start up and in what order. Can this be done without a database layer?
A script to do this automagically should be doable
I haven't played much with this in Linux but a few years ago I was having a play with VBox in Windows and getting it to run as a service and start and shutdown VMs automatically (on boot and shutdown). I never actually got it to work as intended (and ended up going with VMware Server as it can do this OOTB from the WebUI) but I'm sure it's doable and I found lots of info about it.
In my experience getting things like this to work is easier in Linux than Windows and with your skills I'm sure you're up for the job! :)
Here's a couple of links that look like they may be useful (the 1st one maybe not so much, but is quite a good overview of VBox at the command line):
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7673/ (Requires free rego to read)
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-control-virtual-machines-virtualbox-usi...
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html (chapter on command line tool VBoxManage)
And specifically, getting VBox VMs to automatically stop gracefully on shutdown/reboot:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1078689
Thanks for the heads up, Jedmeister.
I'm going to take this on seriously next, hopefully less long term than my packaging aspirations. I've got a long way to go, but I've clearly come some distance, so I'm feeling a little capable.
Your experience and the leads you've shared will give my a fighting chance.
Unable to load ISOs from 9while9
Hi,
I've tried many times loading ISOs located on 9while9 website. On the approx. 420MiB, i just download 120MiB to 190MiB. I'm located in France. I think you could put ISOs on Rapidshare-like service, you will save a lot bandwitch at the same time.
For the moment i will make my own ISO with patch file and TurnKeyLinux master ISO. This take much time and complication (already failed 2 times...).
Otherwise, thank you for the great work!
Djé.
Dje', Thanks for the feedback -
I'm uploading to rapidshare and will update you with access information as soon as I figure it out.
Thanks again,
Rik
ISO on Rapidshare
OK, looks like this URL leads to the phpvirtualbox-O.iso: http://rapidshare.com/files/451043467/phpvirtualbox-O.iso. I'm not pleased with rapidshare's terms of service, so I'm exploring options - including Amazon Simple Storage. But that should work in the meantime.
Update: Amazon may be the better bet: https://s3.amazonaws.com/9while9/phpvirtualbox-O.iso
Ok, thank you :). I also
Ok, thank you :).
I also don't pleased with rapidshare terms of services. You can also exploring SourceForge or BerliOS-like solutions (software forge). I don't really know how it works, but it seems be adapted solutions.
Thank you!
Djé
Dj'e
Thank you for taking time to let us know about the problem. Update us on how things go.
Rik
Hey Rik (and anyone else who is interested)
If you are one of the lucky people who own an android phone, I just came across a cool app: VirtualBox Remote Manager (for your phone). I haven't actually tested it out but it looks cool and has high ratings.
Thanks for the heads up!
I've seen what I think is a similar tool for iOS. I haven't tried it because my understanding is that it'll compete with phpvirtualbox for VirtualBox's attention. I haven't looked very closely at it, but that's what I've surmised in my cunning ignorance. I'll give the one for iOS a shot, and then have Steven, one of the students, look at what's available for Android. When spring break is over, naturally.
Auto-Start Vm's on Boot
I found the link below on how to auto-start vm's through start up scripts. Not sure how to impliment but maybe it will point you guys in the right direction.
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=40016&start=0
BTW I'm running this as my base system and it RULES!!! Thanks guys
VboxTool for auto-start and halt
Looks like VboxTool is designed to do auto-start and halt of VM's with the host. It would be most excellent if that could be integrated into phpvirtualbox.
http://vboxtool.sourceforge.net/
Importing TKL appliances - problem with creating the disk file
Rik-
This is great work! I've installed it directly from the bootable .iso on bare metal and the install couldn't have been smoother. I changed the passwords as prompted on the install and all services are up and running, I can connect to them from a seperate workstation. Truly a nice solution, especially when you can install it on practically any hardware that you have laying around.
I was able to directly copy over the TKL appliance files from my Windows XP workstation to the "import" folder on the appliance using the SMB share. Nice!
I am running into a problem when I try to import the TKL appliance from it's *.ovf file. The Virtual Box admin web page sees the import files and it also picks up the configuration settings from the *.ovf file, but when it attempts to do the import and create the disk file - I get the following error:
"Storage for the medium '/var/virtualbox/VirtualBox VMs/TurnKey Joomla/turnkey-joomla-2009.10-2-hardy-x86.vmdk' is not created"
It has happened on multiple appliance files and I have re-installed the VirtualBox appliance and tried again with the same error message. I'm taking all the defaults on settings and not changing anything that I know of, except by setting the passwords on the install.
Has anyone run into this at all? It almost seems like a file system permissions problem. Do I need to complete some additional steps prior to just doing an import of the *.ovf files? Anyone have insight on this?
-Brian
Firstly looks like you're using TKL legacy
The current TKL releases are v11.2 (looks like you are using v2009.10-2 which is quite old). So perhaps it's worth updating to the current version while you are at it? You may need to do some tweaking to get it to all work ok, but TKLBAM should be pretty handy in this instance. OTOH that version is based on Ubuntu 8.04/Hardy and is supported (with security updates etc) until April 2013 so no rush if you're happy.
Secondly, I had a similar error message (with v11.2 TKL Core image on VBox v4.1.4 - WinXP, so different setup but bare with me...), but it still works ok. It looks like VBox complains that the VMDK isn't where it wants it to be (for the new VM) and throws an error but then goes ahead and copies the VM HDD image (VMDK file) to where it wants it to be. So despite the error everything works as it should. Perhaps something similar occurs with the VBox server?
If it errors and stops then perhaps try double checking the path is correct.
Another thing, not sure if you created those paths, or Rik did in the original appliance but Linux is case sensitive (so check the case of the real path and that that VBox is trying to use) and also it's generally good practice to avoid spaces in Linux file & folder names (in my experience strange things can happen sometimes with spaces in Linux paths).
Thanks for the suggestions
Thanks for the response, those were all great ideas. I've tested them all out and the error persists. The folder structure gets created, but Virtual Box errors out and the VM never gets created in the Virtual Box interface. I may also be using an older *.iso. I'm going to try the most recent patch posted above and I'll feedback if I am more successful with that.
If that doesn't do it...
Perhaps you could try just making a new VM? Create it as close to the VMs you had running under XP but when you get to make the virtual harddrive, instead select the vmdk you have already. I assume the headless verion lets you do that like the desktop version does?
This Looks great,, will try soon (so how about VBox/Sphere?)
I have been working on a VSphere VServer recently (so far not worth the effort IMHO).. the idea of a headless VBox seems awesome. If you could go one more step and tie a few Boxes together and migrate instances (or provide mirroring for instances) that would be pretty cool... Not trying to add work here.
I'm sure I will throw some questions out when I try to implement first time.
Thanks for working on this!
Wanting to get VBox App running - attempting to get running.
I generally am running Vmware ESXI but I have a AP that has been built for VBox that i cannot get to load on ESXI direct. i can load in V-Box but need to get a DNS connection to it, so i am attempting to load this as a machine on a ESXI Box.
First Attempt I did not upgrade packages, then went to a prompt would you like to download and install the VirtualBox Extenstion Pack"..
Reset machine which threw me into a new install routine. This time I am upgrading packages, which of course takes forever... Second time around again though, same error,
"The Vbox Kernel Module is not Available" then a few more lines down.
"Trying to register the Vbox kernel modules using DKMS.... " long pause
Then as I was typing the above the box came up "Wha hoo!"... but now I am stumped by the password in phpvirtualbox.. (I thought I was very clear on input).
Reading the threads above I see this is complicated. Can I reset from Webmin or WebShell?
-------------
update: Tried logging in with the Samba User named Virtual Box.. will try again.
I can't find any 'Admin", "ADMIN" or "admin' users defined anywhere which I had thought I was setting 1 or 2 passwords for in the intall routine.
---------- After Restart I get in /phpvirtualbox
An error occurred communicating with your vboxwebsrv. No more requests will be sent by phpVirtualBox until the error is corrected and this page is refreshed. The details of this connection error should be displayed in a subsequent dialog box.
Then: Could not Connect to Host.
____ Any work arounds known?
Likely a dead end Game (Vbox over VmWare)
Today I tried simply installing VBox on a Win2008 Server install followed by a VBox Machine (OVA +VMDK) that is running in ESXI. It wanted to work, but would not on boot because of processor timing errors. The Same OVA Set runs fine on my Laptop in VBox, just I can't give it a real IP to test anything.
Long Story short, I am not sure we can virtualize virtualized processors right now.
That was not the problem outlined above, but I expect it would lead here (possibly not though).. How do I get into the password / user I set for VBox. I can load the Machine (more than I can do in the above reference), I just can't log into Vbox.
Sorry to be somewhat circular here.
VBOX Appliance
is there a 64 bit build iso ?
it's work brilliant ! Thanx a lot!
Not yet...
But the core devs have been threatening it for a while! So I expect that we'll see 64 bit builds with the next major released (which is rumoured to be based on Ubuntu 12.04).
Mmmm
honey to my ears :D
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