On vrijdag 4 november 2011 21:54:59 Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a small computer repair lab. We are a team of about 3 PC > technicians. I thought it would be cool if I setup a headless VirtualBox > server and install a VM for each technician. This way each tech has his own > machine to RDP into and do whatever they need. > I'd like to install it on a Linux server that will also serve as a file > server for the files (app installers, documents etc.). > > Is there a HOWTO for such a setup?
Headless only has to do with the VM's you want to run. You don't start them from a GUI of a logged in user, but you start them either through root of a logged in user on a terminal/ssh. I have a rather normal desktop system with minimal applications. I generate the VM using the GUI, but I start the VM via a cronjob of root on one system and via a cronjob of the user that generated the VM on another system. So in your case you could have three normal user on the basic system. Each user generates it own VM using the GUI, which he can start headless later by logging in in his account and give the headless start command. He can enter his VM in line mode via ssh or a remote GUI protocol. It is probably best to use a bridged network, so each VM and the base system have their own IP address. On the base system you can have whatever service you can run on a Linux system and also on the VM. I would recommend at least 4 GB memory, for each VM and the base system 1 GB, but it very much depends on what you want to do on each system. In that case all can run in parallel. -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
