From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 21 07:39:35 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2921A4F4 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:39:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@hewbert.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f49.google.com (mail-oa0-f49.google.com [209.85.219.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0556973 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:39:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id j1so2547824oag.8 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:39:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=cezlFKVqm/Ufg0d6dafcHZ/yErXCVUXAuSPADDA5yAI=; b=LtLdVkqW1WLTpWPOU0cWnPxw/Isr69+A4XYanuTYTq0cFgnAAaz4z/cpfYj7jn1N5P YPHJ5o1kha/iPEkJ2jwCt+hhFX+RGUfAc5QC54RpsCizFpWNb9Px47vDeb6R3OoYbgDc BRMkonGnxXopErnvgHGE8mBcxj82XEp135UFoYadtC2hZoWjnHIajN7ofnOWrg8RmJxZ SgsbUj4Hv9bFNUqfYCxryWUnHXnyL01lyINSMD/honqE63lAUKJxn0RaYdwfhxE1kZ+b YRUO5pmhFZMesubYN1thm2mZ/t8aoeji52abmh29LEPEv4Pv9KVEFE2xz8Onb8MgWSKM huYQ== X-Received: by 10.60.34.98 with SMTP id y2mr12484284oei.74.1366529968374; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ob0-x232.google.com (mail-ob0-x232.google.com [2607:f8b0:4003:c01::232]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s4sm13422184obx.7.2013.04.21.00.39.27 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id 16so651002obc.37 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:39:26 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.15.98 with SMTP id w2mr7886622oec.128.1366529966729; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.140.130 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:39:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1366375031.22246.YahooMailNeo@web165004.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1365927098231-5803691.post@n5.nabble.com> <20130414103154.3a49e6de.freebsd@edvax.de> <1365996890840-5803879.post@n5.nabble.com> <1366004997052-5803900.post@n5.nabble.com> <516F9DD2.6030200@coosemans.org> <1366270329916-5804740.post@n5.nabble.com> <20130418095129.7c6dc564.freebsd@edvax.de> <1366281671523-5804757.post@n5.nabble.com> <20130418133528.GA13082@eris.bzerk.org> <1366293077054-5804802.post@n5.nabble.com> <1366375031.22246.YahooMailNeo@web165004.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:39:26 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Virtual Box on FreeBSD Server From: Josh Beard To: Bill Tillman X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnHrPPorZM8OhlfJqqPgT7mGX6HTilZ82+ruRHhv33GAqI+RvdwayTEq9BKUZmJXiKSQW9v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:39:35 -0000 As others have said, you can run VirtualBox without X. The command line tools provided by VirtualBox are pretty comprehensive and straight-forward. To add to that, there's also phpVirtualBox: https://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/ that provides a nice web interface to managing your VMs, though it appears the project is on pause right now. I actually have a few semi-production servers running under VirtualBox on a Linux host, as I found far better disk performance there for FreeBSD guests than under KVM. Hopefully that changes soon, if it hasn't already. On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: > I've been looking into setting up some Linux servers but instead I'm > thinking that I could use Virtual Box on my FreeBSD servers to do this. I > would like some seasoned advice from others on the following before > proceeding: > > 1. As I understand it you can install Virtual Box from the ports > collection. But then I see the instructions in the Handbook: > > To launch VirtualBox, type from a Xorg session: > % VirtualBox > So am I to assume the only way to run Virtual Box is to have Xorg > installed and running on the FreeBSD server? Which is a drag because my > current FreeBSD servers are exactly that, servers, and do not have the > fancy video cards, monitors, etc.. to run Xorg. Is there an alternative to > running the interface from Xorg. I'm a command line fanatic when it comes > to servers. Or would I be able to install Xvnc or something like that and > run it from one of my Windows 7 machines which has all the fancy > video capabilities? > > > 2. Once installed, I will be able to install something like Fedora or > openSUSE? These will only be installed as server so I can run databases > like MySQL in the Linux environment. The client I'm working for insists on > using SUSE...no FreeBSD allowed. They think it's poison and are very biased > on this so there's no talking them out of it. I need to gain experience > using these databases on Linux, not FreeBSD. > > 3. I'm going to buy a 1 TB SATA drive for this setup. It will be running > on an AMD64 server with FreeBSD 9.x or whatever is the latest release as of > this weekend. > > 4. There is also a Plan 'B' to go the other way. Since I already have two > i7 machines running Windows 7, perhaps it might be better to install the > Windows version of Virtual Box or even VMWare and create my instances of > Linux on one or even both of these machines. > > Any advice would be appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >