Give vboxheadless a try =)
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Jeffrey Malewski <jml...@toast.net> wrote:
> **
> Hello everyone,
> My main interest in Virtualbox is for testing iso images without the need
> to burn to disk. I am working from a base install of Ubuntu Server 12.04 on
> an older 32 bit system. Having already tried to build a VM using qemu-kvm
> I've found that my system doesn't support hardware virtualization, but was
> advised that virtualbox does. I've installed virtualbox 4.1-24 and the
> extension pack, then co-authored a bash script to create my VMs from iso
> images. Actually very little of my code made it into the finished script.
> The script appears to work very well. The VM is created as well as the disk
> image, but I am unable to confirm that since I get an error messege: failed
> to open the x11 display.
>
> Is there a way to enable software virtualization without having to install
> a desktop gui? I would prefer not installing a desktop since that would
> require also installing Orca which would be incompatable with my dns
> server. At the same time I am unable to replace my hardware at present. Any
> help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Jeff
>
>
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