Scenario / Question: How do I get my VirtualBox Guest VM’s to start and stop when the host system reboots, shutdown, or starts. Solution / Answer: Create an init.d script so that VirtualBox Guest VM are controlled as a system service. Install VirtualBox VM Service script The original script [continue...]

Scenario / Question: I have a computer connected to external network with one network card and connected to internal network with another network card. I want to have all external traffic use one nic and all internal traffic use another nic. Solution / Answer: If you do not require NAT or [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I modify the parameters of my VM in VirtualBox from the command line Solution / Answer: Use the tool VBoxManage Install VirtualBox “Install VirtualBox without GUI or Headless” Create a VirtualBox VM guest “VirtualBox Headless VM” VirtualBox [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I control my VirtualBox VM’s from the command line Solution / Answer: Use the tool VBoxManage Install VirtualBox “Install VirtualBox without GUI or Headless” Create a VirtualBox VM guest “VirtualBox Headless VM” Controlling the VirtualBox [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I control VirtualBox from the linux command line CLI Solution / Answer: Use the included tools VBoxManage and VBoxHeadless First Install VirtualBox from this post: “Install VirtualBox without GUI or Headless” VBoxManage for controlling VirtualBox on the [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I install VirtualBox on a linux server that does not have a GUI installed or Xorg. Solution / Answer: VirtualBox can be installed on a headless server, and can be controlled with VBoxManage and VBoxHeadless from the command line. Install VirtualBox 3.0 There are two [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I setup vncserver so I can remote into Fedora 11 and use Gnome desktop or GDM Solution / Answer: Install vnc-server on Fedora 11 machine and connect to Gnome desktop or GDM Install Xinetd # yum install xinetd Enable XDMCP # vi /etc/gdm/custom.conf Change the follwoing [continue...]

Scenario / Question: I installed Fedora 11 with software RAID partitions and after rebooting I get a grub prompt grub> Solution / Answer: Manually configure grub Manually configure Grub Locate grub setup files: grub> find /grub/stage1 On a RAID 1 with two drives present you should expect to [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I setup freeNX on a remote server system running Fedora x86_64 4bit OS. Solution / Answer: Installing the freeNX server software on the remote server machine and using the NoMachine freenx client to connect to it from you local machine. Installing freeNX Server: On the [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I get VirtualBox USB support to work in Fedora ? Solution / Answer: Configure usbfs to allow vboxusers access to USB devices and add usbfs mount to /etc/fstab Configure VirtualBox USB Obtain the GID of the vboxusers group (your GID may different then 501): # cat [continue...]