Debian Virtualbox Host
Notes on setting up a Debian Virtualbox host for my employer
Overview
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/
https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/entry/new_commercial_license_for_oracle
- Oracle VM VirtualBox Enterprise - Named User Plus - $50 per named user
- Oracle’s standard processor licensing, $1,000 per processor socket
Setting up the host box.
How to autostart vms
Good guide to setting up autostart
http://lifeofageekadmin.com/how-to-set-your-virtualbox-vm-to-automatically-startup/
Log
First you need to create the file /etc/default/virtualbox and add a few variables.
VBOXAUTOSTART_DB=/etc/vbox
VBOXAUTOSTART_CONFIG=/etc/vbox/vbox.cfg
Create the file /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg
root# mkdir /etc/vbox
With one line.
default_policy = allow
Set permissions on directory to the vboxuser group and make sure users can write to the directory as well as sticky bit.
root# chgrp vboxusers /etc/vbox
root# chmod 1775 /etc/vbox
Add administrator to the vboxusers group.
root# groups administrator
administrator : administrator sudo
root# usermod -a -G vboxusers administrator
root# groups administrator
administrator : administrator sudo vboxusers
Every user who wants to enable autostart for individual machines has to set the path to the autostart database directory with
administrator$ VBoxManage setproperty autostartdbpath /etc/vbox
List the vms
administrator$ VBoxManage list vms
"craigdeb" {0e7bca8b-b552-4ebb-9e39-bb1f6fb19d5c}
administrator$ VBoxManage modifyvm craigdeb --autostart-enabled on
root# update-rc.d virtualbox defaults
After log place holder
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