If you already have VirtualBox installed on Debian, it only takes a couple of minutes to upgrade to the latest version. In this case, I will be upgrading Debian Stretch from v6.0.x to v6.1.x All the prerequisites on https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads have been met since this is an upgrade. Open Terminal and run these commands: sudo apt-get […]
VirtualBox Web Service Configuration for phpVirtualBox
The vboxweb-service is required for connecting to a VBox Host from phpVirtualBox. On Debian Stretch, the service is installed and started whenever VBox is started (i.e. boot or after an upgrade) however it immediately exits if its configuration file is not present. The configuration file is not created by default. You need to create it: […]
VirtualBox Daily Snapshot Script
It is a good practice to create a routine snapshot of VMs once per day. This is not a full backup to off-site media since the snapshot has a differencing disk image and must be on fast storage (same directory as the .vdi in my configuration). There is also no method to automatically delete these […]
VirtualBox Windows ACPI Shutdown
In order for VirtualBox to shutdown a Windows guest machine using ACPI, the ‘Shutdown without Logon’ option must be enabled. This can be configured using RegEdit to set the following key to a value of 1: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\shutdownwithoutlogon