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Friday, October 22, 2010

Installing Virtualbox on Ubuntu Server 10.04

Wanna install Virtualbox on a headless Ubuntu server?

First do a:



Then download the appropriate .deb for your architecture from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

Finally, install with:



(Ok, I installed virtualbox 3.2 on a 64 bit server, yours might vary)

Extra credit
If you want to make your life REAAALY easy you should also install phpvirtualbox on the host Ubuntu server and get a shiny web based GUI administration screen that looks almost exactly like the native GUI Virtualbox application.