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+ <title>Creating a Headless VirtualBox VM Host on Ubuntu Server</title>
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+ <h1>Creating a Headless VirtualBox VM Host on Ubuntu Server</h1>
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+ <div></div>
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+ <div id="content">
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+ <h2>Installation and Configuration</h2>
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+<ol>
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+ <li>Log into the Ubuntu Server host</li>
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+ <li>Run the following commands
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
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+ sudo apt update<br />
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+ # install available software updates<br />
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+ sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
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+ # install virtualbox<br />
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+ sudo apt install virtualbox -y<br />
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+ # verify virtualbox installed by outputting the version<br />
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+ vboxmanage -version<br />
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+ # install virtualbox extension pack<br />
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+ sudo apt install virtualbox-ext-pack -y<br />
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+ # disable default vboxweb service<br />
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+ sudo systemctl disable vboxweb<br />
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+ # create vboxadmin user and set a password<br />
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+ sudo useradd vboxadmin<br />
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+ # set the vboxadmin password<br />
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+ sudo passwd vboxadmin<br />
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+ # add vboxadmin to the vboxuser group<br />
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+ sudo usermod -aG vboxusers vboxadmin<br />
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+ # create vboxadmin home directory<br />
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+ sudo mkdir /home/vboxadmin -p<br />
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+ # make vboxadmin the owner of the home directory<br />
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+ sudo chown -R vboxadmin /home/vboxadmin<br />
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+ # edit the default virtualbox configuration<br />
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+ sudo nano /etc/default/virtualbox</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Add the following line to the bottom of the file, changing the username if necessary
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+ <p>VBOXWEB_USER=vboxadmin<br />
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+ VBOXWEB_HOST=127.0.0.1</p>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes</li>
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+ <li>Continue with the following commands, changing the username if necessary
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># create vboxweb.sh<br />
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+ sudo nano /home/vboxadmin/vboxweb.sh</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Paste the following into vboxweb.sh
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+ <p>#!/bin/bash<br />
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+ /usr/bin/vboxwebsrv -H 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null 2>&1</p>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes</li>
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+ <li>Continue with the following commands, changing the username if necessary
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># make vboxweb.sh executable<br />
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+ sudo chmod +x /home/vboxadmin/vboxweb.sh<br />
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+ # create phpvirtualbox.service<br />
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+ sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/phpvirtualbox.service</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Paste the following service configuration, changing the username if necessary
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+ <p>[Unit]<br />
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+ Description=VirtualBox Web Service<br />
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+ After=network.target</p>
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+
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+ <p>[Service]<br />
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+ Type=simple<br />
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+ RemainAfterExit=yes<br />
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+ User=vboxadmin<br />
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+ Group=vboxusers<br />
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+ WorkingDirectory=/home/vboxadmin<br />
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+ ExecStart=/home/vboxadmin/vboxweb.sh<br />
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+ Restart=on-failure</p>
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+
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+ <p>[Install]<br />
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+ WantedBy=default.target</p>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Continue with the following commands
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># enable phpvirtualbox.service<br />
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+ sudo systemctl enable phpvirtualbox.service<br />
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+ # start phpvirtualbox.service<br />
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+ sudo systemctl start phpvirtualbox.service<br />
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+ # install apache2 web server and php<br />
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+ sudo apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php php-curl php-intl php-json php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-zip php-soap -y<br />
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+ # empty the apache2 web root<br />
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+ sudo rm /var/www/html/*<br />
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+ # install git<br />
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+ sudo apt install git -y<br />
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+ # clone phpVirtualBox git repository<br />
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+ sudo git clone https://github.com/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox.git /var/www/html<br />
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+ # copy phpVirtualBox example config<br />
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+ sudo cp /var/www/html/config.php-example /var/www/html/config.php<br />
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+ # edit the config file<br />
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+ sudo nano /var/www/html/config.php</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Update the $username and $password variables to vboxadmin and the password set for the vboxadmin user</li>
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+ <li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to config.php</li>
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+ <li>Open a web browser from another machine and navigate to https://DNSorIP of the VirtualBox host</li>
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+ <li>Log into phpVirtualBox with username admin and password admin</li>
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+</ol>
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+
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+<h2>Creating a Test VM</h2>
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+
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+<ol>
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+ <li>Run the following command on the VirtualBox host to download the TinyCore Linux .iso
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+ <div class="codeBlock">sudo wget -O /home/vboxadmin/TinyCore-12.0.iso http://tinycorelinux.net/12.x/x86/release/TinyCore-12.0.iso</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>In the phpVirtualBox web UI, click New</li>
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+ <li>Set the Name to TinyCore Linux, Type to Linux and Version to Other Linux (32-bit) > Click Next</li>
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+ <li>Leave the memory at 256 MB > Click Next</li>
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+ <li>Select Do not add a virtual hard disk > Click Create</li>
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+ <li>Click Continue to confirm creating the VM with no virtual hard disk</li>
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+ <li>Right click the TinyCore Linux VM > Settings...</li>
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+ <li>Select Storage from the left navigation menu</li>
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+ <li>Click on the empty optical drive</li>
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+ <li>Click the choose disk image dropdown > Choose a virtual disk file...</li>
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+ <li>Navigate to /home/vboxadmin/TinyCore-12.0.iso and select it</li>
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+ <li>Click OK to all open dialog windows</li>
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+ <li>Right click the TinyCore Linux VM > Start</li>
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+ <li>If everything is working as expected TinyCore Linux should be booting to the live environment</li>
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+ <li>Look at the Display details to find the remote port (starts at 9000 by default)</li>
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+ <li>To view the VM directly, remote desktop to the VirtualBox host IP:9000</li>
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+</ol>
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+ </div>
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+ </div>
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+ </body>
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+ </html>
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