Re: VirtualBox from the command line
On 19/03/2010 03:45, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? # VirtualBox -h Sun VirtualBox Graphical User Interface 3.1.2_OSE (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Usage: --startvm vmname|UUID start a VM by specifying its UUID or name --rmode sdl|image select different render mode (default is sdl) There are other ways too, eg VBoxHeadless And VBoxSDL. And VBoxManage. You can even create VMs from the command line, but it's fairly involved. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org The problem with headless VirtualBox on FreeBSD is that the VRDP Connection is set to not active on VirtualBox OSE. AFAIK that makes it impossible to use headless VirtualBox on FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VirtualBox from the command line
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Ricardo Jesus wrote: The problem with headless VirtualBox on FreeBSD is that the VRDP Connection is set to not active on VirtualBox OSE. AFAIK that makes it impossible to use headless VirtualBox on FreeBSD. There are patches to use VNC with the OSE version: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=170485+0+archive/2010/freebsd-stable/20100221.freebsd-stable -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VirtualBox from the command line
--On Friday, March 19, 2010 11:46:51 +0800 Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Why don't virtual box GUI start in vga mode? VirtualBox is in ports and installs as an application like Firefox. Here's a screenshot of it running on my workstation: http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/VirtualBox_on_FreeBSD.png And here's a shot of the menu item in KDE4: http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/VirtualBox_menu_KDE4.png It's the second item from the top, because it's a recently used program. It also appears in the System menu on KDE4. However you create icons to launch programs in your window manager, that's how you would create one to start VirtualBox. It has to start as an X11 program, not a commandline (terminal) program. Is this telling me that I have to have Xorg and some desktop running before VirtualBox's gui will function? Yes. VirtualBox is a GUI program designed to run alternative OSes inside the native OS. (There may be a commandline version that I'm not familiar with.) Are the scripts provided by vboxtool the only way to have command line control of VirtualBox? http://vboxtool.sourceforge.net/ See talk about vboxweb as alternate VirtualBox manager. http://vboxweb.blogspot.com/ Does not look like this is out of development yet. Anybody using this? Well, clearly I'm using the GUI version. I also use it on Mac Snow Leopard. It beats the hell out of VMware or having to run Windows natively. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. Thomas Jefferson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VirtualBox from the command line
--On Friday, March 19, 2010 08:44:48 +0800 Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? It's in ports. I don't know if there's a package for it, but I suspect there is, and it's probably older than the ports version. It's an application. Just like Firefox. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. Thomas Jefferson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
VirtualBox from the command line
Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: VirtualBox from the command line
You need to use 'vboxtool'... http://vboxtool.sourceforge.net/ -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Aiza Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:45 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: VirtualBox from the command line Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VirtualBox from the command line
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? # VirtualBox -h Sun VirtualBox Graphical User Interface 3.1.2_OSE (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Usage: --startvm vmname|UUIDstart a VM by specifying its UUID or name --rmode sdl|image select different render mode (default is sdl) There are other ways too, eg VBoxHeadless -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VirtualBox from the command line
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? # VirtualBox -h Sun VirtualBox Graphical User Interface 3.1.2_OSE (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Usage: --startvm vmname|UUIDstart a VM by specifying its UUID or name --rmode sdl|image select different render mode (default is sdl) There are other ways too, eg VBoxHeadless And VBoxSDL. And VBoxManage. You can even create VMs from the command line, but it's fairly involved. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VirtualBox from the command line
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com mailto:aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? # VirtualBox -h Sun VirtualBox Graphical User Interface 3.1.2_OSE (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Usage: --startvm vmname|UUIDstart a VM by specifying its UUID or name --rmode sdl|image select different render mode (default is sdl) There are other ways too, eg VBoxHeadless -- Adam Vande More I read the VirtualBox section in the handbook. Not very informative. I also read the VirtualBox manual here http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#startingvboxonlinux The VirtualBox website http://www.virtualbox.org shows a GUI manager for configuring the host and guest setups. I did pkg_add -r virtualbox During the install got these messages Your SDL library has been built with libvgl support, which means that you can run almost any SDL application straight on your console (VESA 2.0 compatible videocard is required). To do this you have to load the vesa kernel module or enable it in your kernel, and set environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER=vgl. Since i Want to run virtualbox under vga I did this set env SDL_VIDEODRIVER=vgl added vesa_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf At the end of the package install it says to Add vboxdrv_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf and reboot which i did. before launching do mount -t procfs proc /proc pw groupmod vboxusers -m root To launch it enter VirtualBox on the command line. [take special note of the capital letters V B in the command name] I get msg Failed to open the X11 display. tried starting VBoxSDL get this error VBoxSDL: Error -1908 in suplibOsInit! VBoxSDL: Kernel driver not installed VBoxSDL: Tip! Make sure the kernel module is loaded. It may also help to reinstall VirtualBox. Tried starting VBoxManager VBoxManager: Command not found. Tried starting VBoxHeadless VBoxHeadless: Error -1908 in suplibOsInit! VBoxHeadless: Kernel driver not installed VBoxHeadless: Tip! Make sure the kernel module is loaded. It may also help to reinstall VirtualBox. Why don't virtual box GUI start in vga mode? Is this telling me that I have to have Xorg and some desktop running before VirtualBox's gui will function? Are the scripts provided by vboxtool the only way to have command line control of VirtualBox? http://vboxtool.sourceforge.net/ See talk about vboxweb as alternate VirtualBox manager. http://vboxweb.blogspot.com/ Does not look like this is out of development yet. Anybody using this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
