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 <btillma...@yahoo.com> 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-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
