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Running VirtualBox 2.0 on a Headless Ubuntu 8.04 Server

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Sep 25, 2008

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual
machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment.
Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that
allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop
connection, so there’s no need for the VirtualBox GUI.”


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