On 03/05/2010 07:49 AM, Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac wrote:

> > Hi everyone, i'm a newcomer in the list, and expect to have a nice
> > time here. English is not my mother language, so please, forgive me
> > for any dumb thing that i may say.
> >
> > What do I have:
> > I'm running a Ubuntu 9.10 i386 with the lastest vbox instalation. I 
> > have a remote server running an Debian Etch AMD64 with no GUI.
> > I'll use the standard vbox version, not the OSE one.
> >
> > What do i have to do:
> > Install an Windows Server 2008 Standard 32bit here in my machine and
> > export it to run in the Debian server.
> >
> > Which are my doubts:
> > Can I run vbox without a GUI?
>   
Yes, with VBoxHeadless (i.e. VBoxHeadless -s "Name of VM" & )

> > Can I install vbox from the repos without installing a full graphical
> > user (without the vbox GUI and/or the system GUI, like an X with KDE
> > or Gnome)?
>   
Yes, but will need some dependencies. check: aptitude show virtualbox-3.1

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads#Debian-basedLinuxdistributions

> > I'll have trouble for installing the system in a 32bit OS and export
> > to a 64bit one?
>   
Shouldn't be much of a problem as long as the CPU's are similar/the same.

> > There are others majors issues that i should expect?
>   
Not having patience for such a large transfer? If you have any issues,
don't hesitate to join on IRC (irc.freenode.org #vbox) and don't forget
to patiently wait if no one answers.

> >
> > Tks in advance.
>   
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